Posts by andrew llewellyn
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I think a lot of people from HNZC who do not work for the Maintenance crew will be pretty pissed off about the "luxury soiree" at the Spa de Vin. (great name).
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It's not as though the HNZC were dressing up as shepherds and nymphs at the Petit Trianon for crying out loud
Wait for reports of their Christmas party to surface....
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But, as I said, many other people in Wgton are very grateful to HNZC for taking centrestage.
they should have said they were from MSD. Don't they know anything?
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The really great questions (IMO) were those that made absolutely no sense & were unanswerable, so we'd answer along the lines of "This stupid question is unanswerable because it is nosensical gibberish" (the Comms team devised a very polite & respectful way of saying this) and why that was the case.
Then, to our great delight, the MP in question would decide we were deliberately holding the information (for instance) as to "How many HNZC tenants remained vacant in each NHU for the last 6 months?" - hint, properties are vacant, not (theoretically, let's not spculate about Dot) tenants) as an OIA.
We'd wait the requisite 21 working days before responding to those with the respectful Comms disclaimer.
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On that basis, it'd be cheapest to publish as much data as client privacy would allow, wouldn't it?
MPs are a suspicious lot, some will ask the same questions, to which the answers are freely available in the annual report or website, just to see if the answers match.
They don't always from some places.
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If information is available on a website or in an annual report, etc, can a department answer OIA requests or Parliamentary questions by telling the questioner to go look at the website or whatever?
Yep they can. Although they have to follow the correct procedure & formall yanswer "The member is referred to the blah blah page on the blah blah website.
Auntie Muriel had someone in her office who recycled all her questions month after month, often, they'd forget to update the date at which the question was asked, so we'd take some small pleasure in formally referring her to the answers we supplied last month.
A week later they'd arrive with the dates updated.
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Heh (different govt department) but I had to go down to the cells to bail out (vouch for) one of my staff who was picked up (out of the Courtenay Place gutter) after an event...
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...censured for issuing....
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And I was once mildly censured with issuing my team with written instructions for what to do and say if anyone was arrested (the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions).
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Dealing with the local DHB (or whatever the hell they were called in the mid-ish 90's) during my brief and inglorious career as a provincial hack,
Oh that reminds me (and I posted but a CBD power cut (2nd in as many weeks - a sign of thing to COME!) stole it...
When at HNZC, on the odd occasion we were out on the town on a post event piss up, if anyone asked, we worked for MSD.