"There's going to be a manned re-entry."
Asked about recent gas readings in the mine, Monk says: "Everything's inert."
What that means is it's full of methane and "controllable".
"For those people who don't understand, we have never had another explosion since those last explosions, which is coming up to seven years, so what does that tell the country about how safe the mine is?"
Little told RNZ this morning Pike River was a high priority and he wanted to meet the Pike families, their representatives and experts as soon as possible.
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