15 July 2022
Angela
[FYI request #19700 email]
Ref: OIA-2021/22-1457
Dear Angela
Official Information Act request relating to evidence of vaccine reducing serious
outcomes and MHA documents
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request received on 17 June 2022.
You requested:
Dear Māori Health Authority,
1. Please provide evidence that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty reduces
any serious outcomes and hospital admissions of COVID-19.
2. Please include only official research from Pfizer or other research that the
government has used in the justification of the use of the Comirnaty vaccine
within New Zealand.
3. Please can the Maori Health authority provide evidence they hold that the
covid-19 vaccination protects ones whakapapa, what evidence do you hold that
the vaccine is effective in preserving ones whakapapa as promoted in the
media and via a relentless media campaign?
4. Please can the Maori Health authority provide all emails, and documentation
between the NZ government and all those involved in the setting up of the new
Maori Health authority, being Iwi Chairs, Whanau Ora Ltd, Pou Matakana Ltd,
Waipareira Trust Ltd and any other entity who has a financial interest in the
Maori health authority?
5. Please can you provide evidence of all discussions, emails documents and any
other information held that shows the number of non-corporate and proclaimed,
constituted Hapu were consulted about the new Maori Health authority?
6. Please can the Maori Health authority provide the consent provided by heads of
Hapu and National Wakaminenga agreeing to the creation of the Maori Health
authority?
7. Please can Maori health authority please supply the individual contracts of living
tangatawhenua with wet ink signatures that provides consent to the accessing
of personal, private data of Rangatira of Hapu, and their whanau by a statutory
entity being the Maori Health authority.
8. Please can Maori Health authority supply the emails, contract and discussion
held between John Tamihere and his business partners who specialise in stents
and heart issues in the setting up of the Maori Health authority, all emails,
discussions and contracts please?
On 4 July 2022 the first three questions in your request were transferred to the Ministry of
Health as the information requested was more closely related to the functions of that
Ministry.
For the remainder of your request, I will respond to each of your questions in turn.
Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand 6011
4572763
64 4 817 9698 www.dpmc.govt.nz
Response to your request
4. With regard to your request for
all emails, and documentation between the NZ government
and all those involved in the setting up of the new Maori Health authority, being Iwi Chairs,
Whanau Ora Ltd, Pou Matakana Ltd, Waipareira Trust Ltd and any other entity who has a
financial interest in the Maori health authority, I am refusing this part of your request under
section 18(f) of the Act, as the information requested cannot be made available without
substantial collation or research.
5. With regard to your request for
evidence of all discussions, emails documents and any
other information held that shows the number of non-corporate and proclaimed, constituted
Hapu were consulted about the new Maori Health authority, I am refusing this part of your
request under section 18(e) as the document alleged to contain the information requested
does not exist or, despite reasonable efforts to locate it, cannot be found. DPMC does not
hold information about the specific number of hapū represented in consultation and
engagement undertaken as part of the Transition Unit’s work on health reforms.
6. With regard to your request for
can the Maori Health authority provide the consent
provided by heads of Hapu and National Wakaminenga agreeing to the creation of the Maori
Health authority, I am refusing this part of your request under section 18(e) as the document
alleged to contain the information requested does not exist or, despite reasonable efforts to
locate it, cannot be found. I can advise that the Māori Health Authority is established by the
Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022.
7. With regard to your request for
the individual contracts of living tangatawhenua with wet
ink signatures that provides consent to the accessing of personal, private data of Rangatira
of Hapu, and their whanau by a statutory entity being the Maori Health authority, I am
refusing this part of your request under section 18(e) that the document alleged to contain
the information requested does not exist or, despite reasonable efforts to locate it, cannot be
found. I note that, like all other organisations, the Māori Health Authority is bound by the
Privacy Act 2020 in relation to personal data.
8. With regard to your request for
the emails, contract and discussion held between John
Tamihere and his business partners who specialise in stents and heart issues in the setting
up of the Maori Health authority, all emails, discussions and contracts, I am refusing this part
of your request under section 18(e) that the document alleged to contain the information
requested does not exist or, despite reasonable efforts to locate it, cannot be found. I note
that this organisation has not been contracted to provide stents.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under
section 28(3) of the Act.
We do not intend to publish this response on the Department of the Prime Minister and
Cabinet’s website.
Yours sincerely
Stephen McKernan
Director, Health and Disability Review Transition Unit
4572763
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