Havelock North gastro costs $21m, compensation boost unlikely

Last year's water-contamination crisis cost each Havelock North household more than $2400 in lost wages, extra cleaning and time off work. A new Ministry of Health report says the total cost of the gastro outbreak in August last year was just over $21 million. A $200,000 compensation fund for those who suffered financially from the outbreak has received 37 applications, and there are calls for that fund to be boosted. Hastings acting deputy mayor Simon Nixon joins us to discuss the fallout from the crisis.