Nicola Willis
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1,507 appearances
29 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Nicola Willis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's why we've set the targets to have elective surgery waiting times coming down, the time you wait in the emergency room coming down, more specialist appointments.
That's why we're doing preventative health things like investing in bowel screening because we are going to have to keep getting more bang out of the health buck, unquestionably.
And look, Simeon Brown is working on that every day.
It's not something where you solve it with one magic bullet one week, but he is constantly making improvements.
Yes, I am, because it is true that the rail network in the country is degraded.
It does need repairs and upgrading.
That is an essential piece of maintenance spending if we want to continue having a rail network.
And rail does play an important role in terms of freight, but also for commuters in our urban areas.
And so that's one of those investments that you just have to do if you want to be a country whose infrastructure works well.
Yeah, look, I think that that is a positive policy because what it's saying to councils is we want you consenting more homes so that housing is affordable in New Zealand.
And we recognise that you need to have a reason for doing that because many of them are pretty slow on the old consenting.
And that gives them a real financial incentive to get on with it.
It's a bonus payment policy.
for being a council that's consenting homes i see david seymour's logic i'm pleased we're delivering on that coalition commitment and i think a lot of councils will be positively behaving because of it the bank levy i don't know how you can argue with it with a straight face your line was they do pretty well i do pretty well why don't you text me more
Well, I don't think that I want you flying off overseas, making different choices.
When I look at talented people in this country, the idea that I'm going to tax them more and they'll be more inclined to invest in New Zealand, that doesn't make sense to me.
When it comes to the banks, we're talking about a tiny, tiny, tiny levy relative to their bottom line.
Yeah, but it's the argument.
And if something already happens, yeah, sure.
It's the morals of the argument.
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