Initial Meetings with portfolio departments
T Murray made this Official Information request to Casey Costello
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From: T Murray
Dear Casey Costello,
I would like to request the following information:
o The dates of your initial meeting with your portfolio departments;
o A list of attendees at this meeting
o Any documentation provided at the meeting
o All notes (including handwritten notes) taken by you or your office staff at the meeting.
Yours faithfully,
T Murray
From: Casey Costello (MIN)
Casey Costello
Dear T Murray,
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act
request dated 14 December 2023. You have requested the following
information:
“I would like to request the following information:
o The dates of your initial meeting with your portfolio
departments;
o A list of attendees at this meeting
o Any documentation provided at the meeting
o All notes (including handwritten notes) taken by you or your
office staff at the meeting."
We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in
any event no later than 2 February 2024, being 20 working days after the
day your request was received (Please note, this takes in to consideration
the summer holiday period 5 December 2023 to 15 January 2024). If we are
unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an
extension of that timeframe.
Kind regards,
Office of Hon Casey Costello
Minister of Customs | Minister for Seniors | Associate Minister of
Health | Associate Minister of Immigration | Associate Minister of
Police
Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
DDI: 04 817 6827
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Please note information about meetings related to the Ministers’
portfolios will be proactively released (this does not include personal or
constituency matters). For each meeting in scope, the summary would list:
date, time (start and finish), brief description, location, who the
meeting was with, and the portfolio. If you attend a meeting with the
Minister on behalf of an organisation, the name of the organisation will
be released. If you are a senior staff member at an organisation, or meet
with the Minister in your personal capacity, your name may also be
released. The location of the meeting will be released, unless it is a
private residence. The proactive release will be consistent with the
provisions in the Official Information Act, including privacy
considerations. Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to ask for a
copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to
be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of
your information, or to have it corrected, or are concerned about the
release of your information in the meeting disclosure, please contact the
sender. You can read more about the proactive release policy at
[1]https://www.dia.govt.nz/Proactive-Releas...
-----Original Message-----
From: T Murray <[FOI #25189 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2023 10:30 PM
To: Casey Costello (MIN) <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Initial Meetings with portfolio
departments
Dear Casey Costello,
I would like to request the following information:
o The dates of your initial meeting with your portfolio
departments;
o A list of attendees at this meeting
o Any documentation provided at the meeting
o All notes (including handwritten notes) taken by you or your
office staff at the meeting.
Yours faithfully,
T Murray
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From: Melissa Turner
Dear T Murray
I write with regard to your request under the Official Information Act of
15 December 2023 for the following information:
“o The dates of your initial meeting with your portfolio
departments;
o A list of attendees at this meeting
o Any documentation provided at the meeting
o All notes (including handwritten notes) taken by you or your
office staff at the meeting.”
Unfortunately, your request has not been completed because of an
administrative oversight in this office that took place while we had
transitional staff in place. I sincerely apologise for this oversight and
will ensure that the information you have requested is provided to you as
soon as possible.
Kind regards
Melissa Turner
Melissa Turner | Senior Private Secretary |Office of Hon Casey Costello
Minister of Customs | Minister for Seniors
Associate Minister of Immigration | Associate Minister of Health |
Associate Minister of Police
2.062 PH, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
M: +64 21 270 9169 | DDI: 04 817 9163
E: [1][email address]
From: Casey Costello (MIN) <[2][email address]>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2023 2:09 PM
To: T Murray <[3][FOI #25189 email]>
Subject: OIA-012 Official Information request - Initial Meetings with
portfolio departments
Dear T Murray,
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act
request dated 14 December 2023. You have requested the following
information:
“I would like to request the following information:
o The dates of your initial meeting with your portfolio
departments;
o A list of attendees at this meeting
o Any documentation provided at the meeting
o All notes (including handwritten notes) taken by you or your
office staff at the meeting."
We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in
any event no later than 2 February 2024, being 20 working days after the
day your request was received (Please note, this takes in to consideration
the summer holiday period 5 December 2023 to 15 January 2024). If we are
unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an
extension of that timeframe.
Kind regards,
Office of Hon Casey Costello
Minister of Customs | Minister for Seniors | Associate Minister of
Health | Associate Minister of Immigration | Associate Minister of
Police
Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
DDI: 04 817 6827
Disclaimer: The information in this email (including attachments) is
confidential and may be legally privileged. If an addressing or
transmission error has misdirected this email, please notify the author by
replying to this email and destroy the message. If you are not the
intended recipient, any use, disclosure, copying or distribution is
prohibited and may be unlawful.
Please note information about meetings related to the Ministers’
portfolios will be proactively released (this does not include personal or
constituency matters). For each meeting in scope, the summary would list:
date, time (start and finish), brief description, location, who the
meeting was with, and the portfolio. If you attend a meeting with the
Minister on behalf of an organisation, the name of the organisation will
be released. If you are a senior staff member at an organisation, or meet
with the Minister in your personal capacity, your name may also be
released. The location of the meeting will be released, unless it is a
private residence. The proactive release will be consistent with the
provisions in the Official Information Act, including privacy
considerations. Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to ask for a
copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to
be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of
your information, or to have it corrected, or are concerned about the
release of your information in the meeting disclosure, please contact the
sender. You can read more about the proactive release policy at
[4]https://www.dia.govt.nz/Proactive-Releas...
-----Original Message-----
From: T Murray <[5][FOI #25189 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2023 10:30 PM
To: Casey Costello (MIN) <[6][email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Initial Meetings with portfolio
departments
Dear Casey Costello,
I would like to request the following information:
o The dates of your initial meeting with your portfolio
departments;
o A list of attendees at this meeting
o Any documentation provided at the meeting
o All notes (including handwritten notes) taken by you or your
office staff at the meeting.
Yours faithfully,
T Murray
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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:
[7][FOI #25189 email]
Is [8][Casey Costello request email] the wrong address for Official
Information requests to Casey Costello? If so, please contact us using
this form:
[9]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:
[10]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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7. mailto:[FOI #25189 email]
8. mailto:[Casey Costello request email]
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From: T Murray
Dear Melissa Turner,
It appears that this information has still not been provided. Could you please advise when the information will be provided and the cause of the delay?
Yours sincerely,
T Murray
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