Tēnā koe Ciaren,

Thank you for your OIA request to the Department of Internal Affairs (included with this email)

The Department will provide its response to your request as soon as practicable and within twenty working days.  The 20th working day is 18 October 2019

Please note that in cases where the Department’s response provides information that is identified to be of general public interest, the response may also be published on the Department of Internal Affairs website.  If the Department publishes its response to your OIA request, all personal information, including your name and contact details, will be removed.

Ngā mihi

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
Te Urungi - Organisational Strategy and Performance
Te Tari Taiwhenua - The Department of Internal Affairs
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |  www.dia.govt.nz

-----Original Message-----
From: Ciaren McGuire <[FOI #11264 email]>
Sent: Friday, 20 September 2019 8:37 PM
To: OIA <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - ACAMS conference

Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

I am seeking to find out about costs and benefits of DIA's participation in the ACAMS conference this October.

Please bear with me as there are a number of details that I wish to obtain.

Please advise me of the staff attending （names not required):
-How many staff are attending
-What the job title of each attendee is and how each staff member will be improved in their specific job by attending as looking at the agenda for the conference and DIAs very limited role in the AML regime it is hard to see how more than a third of the conference content offers real value to them.
-Where in NZ each attendee in each role is based and on what basis they were chosen to attend -How much tax payer money was paid for the attendance of each staff member -How much tax payer money will be spent on travel and accommodation and food/other expenses for each staff member that these expenses applied to -How much money if any DIA contributed to funding the conference

For membership of ACAMS and other professional bodies please provide:
-How many of your staff are members of ACAMS or other AML related professional bodies in cases that DIA pays for their membership -What actual benefit they get in terms of their ability to better do their jobs from these memberships

More generally
-Please provide a detailed explanation of your AML group and its locations and structures -Please provide salary details for each role -Please provide a detailed explanation of what each role in the team actually entails in their job. Please do not provide the official job descriptions that are used when recruiting as the information contained within these is far removed from a true reflection of the jobs involved -Please provide details of all testing that is undertaken on potential recruits for the AML group and the associated criteria that the Department looks for -Please provide detailed demographic information as captured by the optional starter equal opportunities voluntary information and any internal reviews. To include gender, ethnicity , professional background and any other demographic captured. Please break this down by role, team and geographic location and please provide this data longitudinally for the last five years (snapshots at three or six monthly intervals will be acceptable)

Yours faithfully,

Ciaren McGuire

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Dear Ciaren,

 

Thank you for your enquiry to the Department of Internal Affairs (the
“Department”), which was received on 20 September 2019, and which is
included with this email.  In order for your enquiry to be accepted as an
Official Information Act request, please provide evidence of your
eligibility under the Act.

 

Section 12(1) of the Official Information Act 1982 sets out the
eligibility criteria for individuals wanting to make an Official
Information Act request to the New Zealand Government.

 

12 Requests

(1) Any person, being—

 

(a) a New Zealand citizen; or

(b) a permanent resident of New Zealand; or

(c) a person who is in New Zealand; or

(d) a body corporate which is incorporated in New Zealand; or

(e) a body corporate which is incorporated outside New Zealand but which
has a place of business in New Zealand,—

 

- may request a department or Minister of the Crown or organisation to
make available to him or it any specified official information.

 

Evidence of eligibility might include, for example, a copy of your NZ
passport, permanent residents visa or other citizenship document, or
evidence to show you are currently located in New Zealand.  This
documentation is reviewed in confidence and is then deleted from our
records, to be replaced with a notation against your request that evidence
was provided confirming eligibility.

 

If you are not eligible to make a request, or would for any other reason
like to withdraw your request, please take a moment to reply and let us
know.

 

If you wish to submit your evidence of eligibility electronically, we
recommend using a different email address from the one you are currently
using so as to ensure that your identification documents are not published
on the FYI website.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Rachel Chrystall | Senior Advisor Official Correspondence | Regulatory
Services 
Department of Internal Affairs | Te Tari Taiwhenua
45 Pipitea St | Thorndon |Wellington 6011| New Zealand

DD: +64 4 816 4041 |Extn: 6041 | [1]www.dia.govt.nz

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-----Original Message-----

From: Ciaren McGuire <[3][FOI #11264 email]>

Sent: Friday, 20 September 2019 8:37 PM

To: OIA <[4][email address]>

Subject: Official Information request - ACAMS conference

 

Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

 

I am seeking to find out about costs and benefits of DIA's participation
in the ACAMS conference this October.

 

Please bear with me as there are a number of details that I wish to
obtain.

 

Please advise me of the staff attending （names not required):

-How many staff are attending

-What the job title of each attendee is and how each staff member will be
improved in their specific job by attending as looking at the agenda for
the conference and DIAs very limited role in the AML regime it is hard to
see how more than a third of the conference content offers real value to
them.

-Where in NZ each attendee in each role is based and on what basis they
were chosen to attend -How much tax payer money was paid for the
attendance of each staff member -How much tax payer money will be spent on
travel and accommodation and food/other expenses for each staff member
that these expenses applied to -How much money if any DIA contributed to
funding the conference

 

For membership of ACAMS and other professional bodies please provide:

-How many of your staff are members of ACAMS or other AML related
professional bodies in cases that DIA pays for their membership -What
actual benefit they get in terms of their ability to better do their jobs
from these memberships

 

More generally

-Please provide a detailed explanation of your AML group and its locations
and structures -Please provide salary details for each role -Please
provide a detailed explanation of what each role in the team actually
entails in their job. Please do not provide the official job descriptions
that are used when recruiting as the information contained within these is
far removed from a true reflection of the jobs involved -Please provide
details of all testing that is undertaken on potential recruits for the
AML group and the associated criteria that the Department looks for
-Please provide detailed demographic information as captured by the
optional starter equal opportunities voluntary information and any
internal reviews. To include gender, ethnicity , professional background
and any other demographic captured. Please break this down by role, team
and geographic location and please provide this data longitudinally for
the last five years (snapshots at three or six monthly intervals will be
acceptable)

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Ciaren McGuire

 

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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

 

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:

[5][FOI #11264 email]

 

Is [6][DIA request email] the wrong address for Official Information requests
to Department of Internal Affairs? If so, please contact us using this
form:

[7]https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...

 

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on
the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:

[8]https://fyi.org.nz/help/officers

 

If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please
ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA
page.

 

 

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Dear Ciaren,

 

Please find attached a response to your OIA request from the Department of
Internal Affairs.

 

Kind regards

 

Rachel Chrystall | Senior Advisor Official Correspondence | Regulatory
Services 
Department of Internal Affairs | Te Tari Taiwhenua
45 Pipitea St | Thorndon |Wellington 6011| New Zealand

DD: +64 4 816 4041 |Extn: 6041 | [1]www.dia.govt.nz

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