Mark Mitchell

Are you filling your school holiday?

That would have been a fun meeting.

What do you do at a meeting like that?

So you have a meeting.

I mean, no-one's making fun of this.

It's a very sad business.

But what do you do?

You just sit at a public meeting and do what?

Is that from Heinz or Watties or by the supermarkets?

Well, one of the key reasons is because we like to buy imported crap, don't we?

I mean, if the can of peaches is cheap, we'll buy cheap peaches.

Mark, just to get this out of the way, did you come back from holiday specially to put on your raincoat the other day for the emergency, or did you just happen to be back?

No, no, I came back early.

I just couldn't in good conscience get in Bali in the pool drinking bin tanks while the country was at risk of a severe tropical cyclone.

How many times have you interrupted your holidays?

That's the third time now.

So we've been up to Bali three times in the last couple of years and every single one of them has been interrupted by weather.

But that's the job.

And I just want to, you know, like Jenny's talking about the situation in Hawke's Bay.

It is tough.