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Megan Yardley
From:
Christine Jones <[email address]>
Sent:
Monday, May 31, 2021 11:08 AM
To:
Alister Jones; Brigid McDonald
Subject:
RE: Tauranga marine research facility
Thanks for the email – we will move forward to lodge a new application.
Kind Regards
Christine
Christine Jones | General Manager, Strategy & Growth
Tauranga City Council | 07 577 7000 x 7063 | 027 467 2334 | [email address] | www.tauranga.govt.nz
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From: [email address] <[email address]>
On Behalf Of Alister Jones
Sent: Monday, 31 May 2021 11:05 AM
To: Brigid McDonald <[email address]>; Christine Jones <[email address]>
Subject: Fwd: Tauranga marine research facility
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Good morning Brigid and Christine
On behalf of Alister, please find below a response from Neale Jones regarding the Tauranga Marine Research Facility.
Kind regards
Lara
Professor Alister Jones
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
University of Waikato | Private Bag 3105
Hamilton 3240 | New Zealand
waikato.ac.nz | Phone: +64 7 838 4700
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From:
Neale Jones <[email address]>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 at 15:04
Subject: Tauranga marine research facility
To: Alister Jones <[email address]>
Hi Alister,
I just spoke with the Minister’s political adviser, Ben McLachlan. Ben was Kiri Allan’s adviser and is continuing in this role
for Ayesha Verrall as Acting Minister.
Ben’s understanding was that DOC was going to send a letter of response to TCC - he imagines this is what the letter you
forwarded was.
He says the guts of it is that the Minister cannot review the previous decision but can consider a fresh one. This is Crown
Law advice, which may be what the note on Crown Law in that letter referred to. This is something of a hard barrier –
Ministers will be extremely reluctant to go against Crown Law advice, as you can imagine.
It sounds like the Council will have to rerun the process and then a fresh application can be considered by the
department.
This would not be called in for a Ministerial decision automatically, but would likely by dealt with by DOC locally. The
general view in the Beehive is not to call in decisions unless they feel they need to. Regardless, if past experience is
anything to go by Labour Ministers are unlikely to be a problem.
Happy to discuss.
Neale.
Neale Jones
Director
Capital GR
+64 27 529 1079
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capitalnz.com
Level 4, Civic Assurance House
116 Lambton Quay
Wellington, New Zealand
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