National Headquarters
Fire and Emergency New Zealand
National Headquarters
Spark Central, Level 7
42-52 Wil is Street
Wel ington Central
Wel ington 6011
Phone +64 4 496 3600
12 May 2026
Ref: 21147
Harwood Wilson
[FYI request #34055 email]
Tēnā koe Harwood
We refer to your request of 12 March 2026 to Fire and Emergency New Zealand requesting the
following information:
1. Any communication involving the Executive Leadership Team within the past 3 months
regarding any aspect of the government select committee, be that discussing their
appearance at, tactics about the meeting or other, include ALL forms of written
communication such as messenger, microsoft teams, whatsapp, email or SMS.
2. Any communication, reports or documents within the past 6 months regarding the
performance, conduct or concerns of the Executive Leadership Team. I wil require
information about any communication within FENZ. I do not require communications
originating from members of the public. However, if complaints or concerns regarding the
Executive Leadership Team have been received from members of the public during this
period, please provide the number of such complaints or concerns recorded.
On 26 March 2026 you agreed to refine your request. Your refined request has been considered
under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA), and our response is set out below.
Part 1
1. any issues regarding select committees within the last 60 days (from today), that have been
communicated by any written means that have either been received by or sent by the Chief
Executive or Deputy Chief Executives, this is critical information for public transparency, if
this is not acceptable please advise.
2. I now query who was the person or position that sent 1000 emails within the past 3 months
containing the keyword "select committee"?
Part 2
1. Any written communication, reports or documents within the past 3 months (from today)
on the performance, conduct, or any other centrally recorded information on the Chief
Executive or Deputy Chief Executives, In the event that individuals are not legally able to be
identifiable, please provide as much information as available. I wil stil require information
within this time period on the total number of issues received regarding the above issues
from the public or otherwise. This is critical information for public transparency, if this is not
acceptable please advise.
2. * Further I ask, what is the process for staff to report issues regarding the Chief Executive
and Deputy Chief Executives?
In line with our obligations under the OIA to make and communicate our decision on your request
within the statutory timeframe, we have decided to grant your request. However, it wil take us a
little more time to prepare the information for release. The information wil be provided to you
without undue delay and no later than 26 May 2026. Some information has been withheld under
the following sections of the OIA:
• 9(2)(a), to protect the privacy of natural persons;
• 9(2)(ba)(i), to protect information which is subject to an obligation of confidence or which
any person has been or could be compel ed to provide under the authority of any
enactment, where the making available of the information would be likely to prejudice the
supply of similar information, or information from the same source, and it is in the public
interest that such information should continue to be supplied; and
• 9(2)(g)(i), to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank
expression of opinions by or between or to Ministers of the Crown or members of an
organisation or officers and employees of any public service agency or organisation in the
course of their duty.
In making this decision, we have considered the public interest considerations in section 9(1) of the
OIA. Some information contained within the Appendices
falls outside the scope of your request.
Where this occurs, the information has been redacted and label ed as
out of scope. Duplicate email
chains have also been removed.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
If you require further information, please email [FENZ request email]
Nāku noa, nā
Aidan Saunders
Manager, Information Requests
