· by simonchulse.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy ·1d ago · view on bsky.app ↗

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Just learned the national coup flights alone would have cost us taxpayers $35k. So who wants to submit an OIA request for the meeting notes and results of the vote, since we paid for it after all? I don’t know how to submit it. #NZPol […]

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Lululamarmiteontoast · 3 · 1d ago

Everyone should put through an OIA & also ask why National party business had to be done in Parliament when they had a scheduled zoom on the Tuesday, which Luxon cancelled Most flew in for a 3 hour meeting & then flew out immediately after, returning this coming week as scheduled #entitled #nzpol

Idiot/Savant · 0 · 17h ago

The #OIA's jurisdiction is not whether we paid for it, but whether the information is held in an official capacity by a minister or listed agency. This information is not held by either...

Idiot/Savant · 0 · 17h ago

This was clearly party business, so any minister attending did so in their capacity as an MP (who are not a listed agency). So you can't ask them. Neither can you ask the funding agency - parliamentary services - because they're not subject to the OIA either.

Idiot/Savant · 0 · 17h ago

Should we have paid for it? Who leads a party's caucus _is_ a parliamentary function, so yes. At the same time, we don't have to like it, especially when the people doing the spending are preaching to the rest of us about "austerity" and "waste".

Idiot/Savant · 0 · 17h ago

Was it responsible spending for a party to fly everyone to Wellington for a meeting which could have been a zoom, and which resulted in nothing? As voters, we get to judge the politicians on that. And on their hypocrisy.