Nine To Noon

09:05  Research suggests Healthline calls prevent unnecessary visits to Emergency Departments

The 24/7 help service, Healthline, believes it can do more to ease pressure in hospital emergency departments by helping with patient assessments.  It has recently published research by Auckland University, based on the Midlands region, covering Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Lakes, Taranaki ,Tairāwhiti and parts of Hawkes Bay, that suggested calls to the service prevent close to 23,000 unnecessary ED visits each year. Already ambulance call centres can refer an emergency contact on to Healthline if they feel that is more appropriate. The emergency telehealth service believes it can have a greater role to help ease the burden in EDs. Dr Ruth Large is an emergency doctor and The Chief Clinical Officer of Whakarongorau Aotearoa,  the organisation running the government funded free Healthline service. She joins Kathryn to talk about how the service can assist hospital emergency services run better. 

09:25 Tax economist behind FIF regime says it needs to change

A leading tax economist who had a major hand in the creation of this country's foreign investment tax rules says they are now having the unintended consequence of blocking talented people - including New Zealanders - from setting up base here. The Government has proposed to change the rules around the Foreign Investment Fund tax regime - particularly to remove the requirement taxing unrealised capital gains on foreign investments. This requires investors get a valuation of assets - whether or not they have been realised - and to pay a tax on those. That is, if they become tax residents of New Zealand, by either spending more than 183 days a year in the country or are deemed to be residents by having a 'permanent place of abode' here. Peter Wilson was the manager of international tax at Treasury in the 90s and played a key role in developing the Foreign Investment Fund tax regime. He says the policy was aimed at keeping investments tax neutral after a 1984 law change that allowed New Zealanders to more freely invest overseas. Many New Zealanders who've been living offshore,  or foreign investors who may be asset rich overseas, are left in a dance to try avoid being in the country long enough, to trigger becoming a tax resident. Sam Blackman co-founded successful logistics software company Nuvocargo and has gone on to do a Master of Laws at Harvard where his thesis focused on a critique of the FIF rules. Among his concerns - entrepreneurial Kiwis who want to return home to live and contribute, but are inhibited by these rules. 

09:45 Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney 

A shift to the right after elections in Germany, relations with US plummet as Ukraine marks war anniversary, and the Pope is in critical condition with pneumonia in both lungs. Seamus Kearney is live. 

10:05 Groove Armada: thirty years of explosive dance hits

Andy Cato and Tom Findlay have produced dozens of dance anthems as Groove Armada since the late 90s including I See You Baby, Superstylin', and At the River. Nine albums later, they're still capturing crowds with the nostalgia factor, but young fans are also on board - so much so, that they had to cancel a Glastonbury set last year due to concerns of overcrowding. They attribute their longevity in part, to a strong friendship forged before the music-making got serious. Both have also diverged into different careers alongside music - Tom Findlay has recently trained as a cognitive behaviour therapist. While Andy Cato put the rights to his music up for sale to fund a regenerative farm and business. Groove Armada are in the country for a four-date tour, starting in Auckland on the first of March. Andy Cato tells me what attendees can expect this time around.

10:35 Book review: Absolution by Alice McDermott

Carole Beu of the Women's Bookshop reviews Absolution by Alice McDermott published by Bloomsbury

10:45 Around the motu: David Williams in Christchurch

The Ngāi Tahu High Court case against the Crown over freshwater has begun, Christchurch marked the 14th anniversary of the 2011 earthquake, and details on the Craigieburn fire.

David Williams is Newsroom's Te Waipounamu South Island Correspondent.

11:05 Political commentators Dale Husband and Liam Hehir 

Dale Husband is a long time broadcaster and Radio Waatea presenter hosting a Maori focused current affairs programme.

Liam Hehir is a Palmerston North lawyer, political commentator and a National Party member.

11:30 Apostle Hot Sauce: taking spicy condiments to heavenly heights

Saints and hot sauce might seem like an unlikely match, but Apostle Hot Sauce has taken spicy condiments to new heights over the last five years. Wellington couple Mat Watkins and Lydia Harfield started up selling homemade sauces at their local Paekākāriki Market, and they've grown to 200 local stockists. Their nine flavours range from the Saint John Mango, Turmeric and Ginger sauce to the Saint Francis Kimchi Ketchup, and they release a new one every year. Co-founder Mat Watkins talks to Kathryn from their Paraparaumu kitchen.

11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

Kennedy talks about the Hukerenui settler museum, one of New Zealand's many early settler museums. Jack Morgan, a local dairy farmer, started collecting memorabilia in his sixties and the museum that houses his collection (and bears his name) is now a repository of everything from a 1950s dental clinic to a classic Kiwi wash house along with a magnificent collection of carved kauri gum - among the bizarre items, a kauri gum Christmas cake. And we have the Bug of the Year winner - peripatus - the velvet worm.