Tēnā koe Erika

Thank you for your email of 29 August 2023 to Kāinga Ora - Homes and
Communities, requesting the following information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (OIA):

1.      Please would you share any communications between you and
receivers of your grant money and employment policies from Oct 2021 until
the present time. Please include any information packs supplied to these
money receivers for c19 vaccination policies.

 

2.      Also please share any health policies for receivers of your grant
money from Oct 2021 until the present time.

 

Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities is considering your request under the
OIA. We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and
in any event no later than 26 September 2023, being 20 working days after
the day your request was received.

Please note that Kāinga Ora has interpreted your request as asking for any
communications, including information packs on COVID-19 vaccination
policies, provided to recipients of Kāinga Ora grants, and for health
policies relating to recipients of Kāinga Ora grants, for the period of
your request.

If this is not correct, or if you wish to be more specific about the
grants your request refers to, I invite you to contact us by Friday 8
September 2023 to clarify your request. You can do this by emailing us at
[1][email address]

Ngā mihi

The Government Relations Team

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Tēnā koe Erika, please find attached a response from Gabby Boag, Team
Leader, to your request of 29 August 2023.

 

The Government Relations Team

 

 

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Tēnā koe Erika

Thank you for your email of 13 September 2023 to Kāinga Ora - Homes and
Communities, requesting the following information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (OIA):

Please would you answer the part of my OIA on employment policies.

 

We understand your request to be a clarification of your earlier OIA
request of 29 August 2023, for the following:

 1. Please would you share any communications between you and receivers of
your grant money and employment policies from Oct 2021 until the
present time. Please include any information packs supplied to these
money receivers for c19 vaccination policies.

 

 2. Also please share any health policies for receivers of your grant
money from Oct 2021 until the present time.

 

We have interpreted your request as asking for Kāinga Ora employment
policies from October 2021 to the present, as these relate to COVID-19
vaccination policies.

I invite you to contact Kāinga Ora to confirm that this is correct, or to
further clarify or amend your request. You can do this by emailing us at
[1][email address] by 25 September 2023.

Please note that your request will not be considered to have been received
for the purposes of the OIA until we receive your confirmation that we
have correctly understood your request.

Please note that under section 15(1AA) of the OIA, any clarification of a
request is considered to be a new request for the purpose of calculating
the maximum statutory timeframe for the response.

Ngā mihi

The Government Relations Team

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Ora. This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential, may
be legally privileged, and are solely for the use of the intended
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error.

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Tēnā koe Erika

Thank you for your email of 18 September 2023 clarifying your recent
request under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA), as below:

‘I am requesting your employment policies for your staff related to Covid
19, and for any persons under any funding arrangements you have for work
being carried out for Kainga Ora, ie c19 policies for its Personnel being
all directors, employees, subcontractors, third party agents, external
consultants, specialists, technical support and co-opted or seconded staff
for Kainga Ora’

 

Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities is considering your request under the
OIA. We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible ,and
in any event no later than Monday 16 October 2023, being 20 working days
after the day clarification of your request was received.

Ngā mihi

The Government Relations Team

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Tēnā koe Erika

Thank you for your email of 18 September 2023 to Kāinga Ora - Homes and
Communities, clarifying your request of 13 September 2023 for the
following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA):

Please would you answer the part of my OIA on employment policies.

 

You clarified that you are asking for:

‘. . . your employment policies for your staff related to Covid 19, and
for any persons under any funding arrangements you have for work being
carried out for Kainga Ora, ie c19 policies for its Personnel being all
directors, employees, subcontractors, third party agents, external
consultants, specialists, technical support and co-opted or seconded staff
for Kainga Ora’

 

As advised, under section 15(1AA) of the OIA any clarification of a
request is considered to be a new request for the purpose of calculating
the maximum statutory timeframe for the response. Kāinga Ora will
endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event
no later than Monday 19 October 2023, being 20 working days after the day
your clarified request was received.

Ngā mihi

The Government Relations Team

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be legally privileged, and are solely for the use of the intended
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Kia Ora Erika – please find attached advice from Kāinga Ora – Homes and
Communities, that it is extending the time needed to respond to your
Official Information Act request of 13 September 2023.

 

Ngā mihi

Gabby

 

 
   

Freephone: 0800 801 601  |  Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities  

PO Box 2628 Wellington 6140  |  New Zealand Government  | 
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(2) do not use, disclose or act on this email in any other way. Thank you.

Kia ora Erika, please find attached a response to your Official
Information Act request from Gabby Boag, Team Leader Government Relations.

 

Ngā mihi

The Government Relations Team

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services

Any opinions expressed in this message are not necessarily those of Kāinga
Ora. This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential, may
be legally privileged, and are solely for the use of the intended
recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible
for delivery to the intended recipient, you have received this message in
error.

Please:
(1) reply promptly to that effect, and remove this email, any attachment
and the reply from your system;
(2) do not use, disclose or act on this email in any other way. Thank you.