The Muster- Joseph Mooney: Airport Deadlines!

We catch Joseph as he catches yet another plane out of Queenstown Airport.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wall.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Good, this is the muster.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Joseph Mooney is MP for Southland, joins us as he
is about to depart once again up to Parliament for
the week.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Good afternoon, Joseph. How things been?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Oh goodness?

Speaker 4 (00:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
No, yeah, just planes about the board. So we'll crank
through it six we can. But you know it's a
good We had a good week last week. We had
the food reading of the cabin bill and she has
happened to party Mali didn't turn up, so I was
able to grab their slot. And the way things work,
it's if someone if someone hasn't spoken for their slot,

(00:43):
you know, during the debate, and here's ten of them
usually doing a debate, then you can make a bid.
And so I jumped up right at the end and
had a cracking and make the final switch on Wh's
kind of nice because I had a role to play
in helping shape up that policy for the election when
the National Party was the only party actually to campaign
or restrict in carbon farming, and we work with our

(01:04):
coalition and partners as and landed a piece of legislation.
We've now brought to some pretty something restrictions around carbon farming,
which is good policy. Going forwards.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well, let's talk around wind farms, carbon farming and the likes.
I know you've probably not cant say too much if anything, really,
but nuclear power as an option for heating and the likes.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Would that be considered?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Oh look, I don't think it's it's on the work planning,
to be fair. I have seen he's on first mate,
some comments at the conference around nuclear I mean, we
are we are in a point in world history where
we need more energy, and absolutely we need more energy,
and I think you know, we should be looking at
oh rafter things solo when we need that base load energy,

(01:51):
which is really important. So you know that's coal, it's water, geothermal,
you name it. You know, we need we need energy.
Energy is the single biggest predictive where their economy is
going to work. Well. They even have an impact on
lifespan because the cost of energy has an impact on
everything else and and and so it's energy is hugely important.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Is nuclear realistic option for New Zealand? I mean the
nineteen eighties was a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Oh well, the new nuclear is an interesting one right
because Innest Rutherford was the was the guy really who
split the enemy was by and but yeah, you can
say it's a bit of an excellent history. Apparently the
Prime Minister at the time when he's reading his notes,
was supposed to rule out nuclear, you know with the
and he ruled out nuclear full stop. But that was

(02:41):
a speach and you can no Primis likes to go
back and what they've said, well, that's my there's my
call at a bit of get moving on that. But
but the shortest feet of it is that's there's not
a not a certainly not something that the government's currently
looking at. But New Zealand thwis.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
I think, okay, we'll get this through very quickly for you, Joane.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Now the contract for impatient building into Needon Hospital that's
got signed off recently.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, mate, yep.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
No.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
I drove down toned And on Friday and I was
there to witness that, which is a big moment for
the South. Finally, after all these years, we've got to
the point where we can sign off the final contract
to build the impatient building. The hospital's going to build
it to its full size, so it's going to have
scope to expand and grow over the years as needed

(03:26):
for services for the border.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
South Weens is due to start construction as such.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Construct is going to start pretty soon, I think, and
we'll start seeing cranes coming out out of the sky.
Next year we'll start going to the sky. So yeah,
people will start seeing some some real action, which is awesome.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
So what's to go to Parliament this week apart from
gloating about your region or your constituency actually holding the
shield twice in one year.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, well it's awesome. Actually, actually we don't stally hear
Parliament this week, but I'm have to het up for
something else. But the it's awesome that we've had the
shield both in Southland and now to Tago. So we're
the ribbons hitting above us weight and the economy, the
economic teams and it's also hitting above us weight and
the shield. And that's that's my final course. I better,

(04:16):
I better, God made.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Always got to catch up them. It's that flight.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Thank you, Joseph Mooney MB for Southland. That's one thing
about being a Member of Parliament. You're always here, there
or going somewhere else. So always got to catch up
with Joseph.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
As we do.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
We're going from Queenslown Airport to Wyndham. Next we are
catching up with Ben Dooley re