Luxon says he will pay back $13,000 of allowance

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is digging in over his choice to collect a 52-thousand-dollar allowance to live in his own mortgage-free apartment in Wellington.  He says he's entitled to the payment and describes it as well-within-the-rules.  But it comes as the Government is trying to cut costs and making savings. Here's our deputy political editor Craig McCulloch.