Kia ora,

On behalf of Hon Kris Faafoi, thank you for your email.

Due to the high volume of enquiries at this time, we will be triaging
issues related to COVID-19 in the first instance.

We appreciate your patience at this time and will get back to you as soon
as we can.

Nga mihi,

Office of Hon Kris Faafoi

Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media,
Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Minister for Government Digital
Services, Minister of Immigration and Associate Minister of Housing
(Public Housing)

Bowen House | Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 |
New Zealand

Authorised by Hon Kris Faafoi MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6011

 

 

 

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Kia ora,

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Nga mihi,

 

Office of Hon Kris Faafoi

Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media,
Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Minister for Government Digital
Services,

Minister of Immigration and Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing)

 

Bowen House | Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 |
New Zealand

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Good Afternoon

 

We acknowledge receipt of your official information request which we
received today, for the following information;

 

              …when will SMC EOI’s selections be resumed back. We are
eagerly waiting for EOI selection process. Kindly give us any timeline
when it would be resumed?

 

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in
any event no later than 20 working days after the day your request was
received.

 

If we are unable to respond to your request within the appropriate
timeframe, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.  If your
OIA request requires full or part transfer, we will contact you within the
required timeframe.

 

Regards

 

[1]Crest Office of Hon Kris Faafoi

Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media |

Minister for Government and Digital Services |    

Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs |    

Minister of Immigration | Associate Minister of Housing (Public
Housing)

P: 64 (4) 817 8720 | E: [2][Kris Faafoi request email]  

 

Authorised by Hon Kris Faafoi, Wellington

                                                                   
                                       

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Sunil Biala
[mailto:[FYI request #13765 email]]
Sent: Friday, 11 September 2020 12:49 PM
To: K Faafoi (MIN) <[Kris Faafoi request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Re: Resume of SMC EOI selections

 

Dear Kris Faafoi,

 

I trust you are well. I am writing you regarding suspension of SMC EOI’s
selections since mid March 2020. We are feeling safe in NZ, going to work
and contributing well in economy. INZ offices are also operating in full
swing from last 2 months and all categories of visa are being processed.
Can I request your answer for when will SMC EOI’s selections be resumed
back. We are eagerly waiting for EOI selection process. Kindly give us any
timeline when it would be resumed?

 

Many Thanks

 

Yours faithfully,

Dr. Sunil Biala

 

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Dear Sunil

We acknowledge receipt of your request to Hon Kris Faafoi, Minister of
Immigration, under the Official Information Act for information about the
EOI selection process.

No prospective date has been set at this time for the recommencement of
EOI selections under the SMC. We appreciate there is a lot of interest in
these EOI selections and that the deferral of selections will be
disappointing. The deferral is a temporary measure and officials at the
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment will soon be providing
further advice, to assist in making a decision on resuming the selection
of SMC EOIs. Any changes made by INZ in this regard will be announced on
their website: [1]www.immigration.govt.nz.

 

Ngā mihi

 

Office of Hon Kris Faafoi MP

Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media, Minister of
Commerce and Consumer Affairs,

Minister of Government Digital Services, Associate Minister of Housing
(Public Housing)

Minister of Immigration.

Bowen House | Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 |
New Zealand

 

Authorised by Hon Kris Faafoi MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6011

 

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From: Marie McCafferty On Behalf Of K Faafoi (MIN)
Sent: Friday, 11 September 2020 3:31 PM
To: '[FOI #13765 email]'
<[3][FOI #13765 email]>
Subject: FW: Official Information request - Re: Resume of SMC EOI
selections

 

 

Good Afternoon

 

We acknowledge receipt of your official information request which we
received today, for the following information;

 

              …when will SMC EOI’s selections be resumed back. We are
eagerly waiting for EOI selection process. Kindly give us any timeline
when it would be resumed?

 

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in
any event no later than 20 working days after the day your request was
received.

 

If we are unable to respond to your request within the appropriate
timeframe, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.  If your
OIA request requires full or part transfer, we will contact you within the
required timeframe.

 

Regards

 

[4]Crest Office of Hon Kris Faafoi

Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media |

Minister for Government and Digital Services |    

Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs |    

Minister of Immigration | Associate Minister of Housing (Public
Housing)

P: 64 (4) 817 8720 | E: [5][Kris Faafoi request email]  

 

Authorised by Hon Kris Faafoi, Wellington

                                                                   
                                       

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Sunil Biala
[[6]mailto:[FOI #13765 email]]
Sent: Friday, 11 September 2020 12:49 PM
To: K Faafoi (MIN) <[7][Kris Faafoi request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Re: Resume of SMC EOI selections

 

Dear Kris Faafoi,

 

I trust you are well. I am writing you regarding suspension of SMC EOI’s
selections since mid March 2020. We are feeling safe in NZ, going to work
and contributing well in economy. INZ offices are also operating in full
swing from last 2 months and all categories of visa are being processed.
Can I request your answer for when will SMC EOI’s selections be resumed
back. We are eagerly waiting for EOI selection process. Kindly give us any
timeline when it would be resumed?

 

Many Thanks

 

Yours faithfully,

Dr. Sunil Biala

 

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From: Louis Houlbrooke [mailto:[email address]]
Sent: Friday, 13 November 2020 1:25 PM
To: Hon Dr David Clark <[email address]>
Subject: Taxpayer Update: More money printing | Ping pong for COVID | Poor
form from Stats NZ

 

[1]Image removed by sender. Update
from the Taxpayers' Union
Dear Supporter,

We need tax relief, not desperate
money printing

[2]Image removed by sender. Adrian
Orr

The Reserve Bank
Governor’s announcement of a new
$28 billion [3]'Funding for
Lending' money printing programme
is a desperate measure. Clearly,
monetary policy tools have become
ineffective at fueling economic
recovery.

In fact, Adrian Orr’s loose
monetary policy may do more harm
than good as New Zealanders pump
all this extra cash into an
already-unaffordable housing
market.

It is becoming increasingly clear
that it’s fiscal policy –
especially the wage subsidy – that
has propped up New Zealand's
economy in the wake of COVID-19.
But the wage subsidy has now run
its course and we need new options.

The Green Party and special
interest groups are clamoring for
higher benefits, but that was
sensibly [4]ruled out by the Prime
Minister on Monday. Other groups
are calling for 'helicopter money'.
We say, instead, look to tax relief
as a way of bolstering real incomes
and encouraging productivity.

A temporary reduction in GST would
encourage New Zealanders to bring
forward future spending, bolstering
business revenues, employment, and
economic growth. It's been done
before, successfully. In the United
Kingdom, a temporary cut to VAT saw
households bring consumption
spending forward, mimicking the
traditional role of looser monetary
policy (i.e. lower interest rates).
A cut to GST certainly beats
printing money and stoking the
housing market!

New Zealanders would actually have
to spend their money on goods and
services (not houses!) to reap the
benefits of a GST cut.

Grant Robertson fights COVID-19
with table tennis

[5]Image removed by sender. Ping
pong

First it was horse racetracks. Then
it was arts grants for
[6]"indigenised hypno-soundscapes".
Now the Government’s
taxpayer-funded pandemic
response [7]includes table tennis,
badminton, downhill luge, and Sea
Scouts.

Grant Robertson is doling out $15
million to over 2,000 sporting
organisations as part of his
"Community Resilience Fund".

The funding was recently increased
"due to the demand for the fund in
the initial three weeks". Well, of
course. There will always be demand
for "free" money!

To the extent that these
organisations contribute to the
economy, they'll have been eligible
for the wage subsidy. Why is the
sports sector getting extra special
treatment?

CCDHB appointment process creates
conflict of interest

Spending at our DHBs needs far more
scrutiny – especially when it comes
to conflicts of interest and "jobs
for the boys".

[8]As RNZ reports, we're raising
the alarm about such a case at
Wellington's Capital & Coast DHB,
as it selects a new Director of
Pacific Health.

The DHB’s selection panel includes
Tino Pereira, who chairs the
Central Pacific Collective – a
group that last year received a
$1.35m contract from the previous
Director of Pacific Health.

In other words, this man will have
a say on hiring the person who will
be responsible for evaluating his
service delivery and potentially
renewing his million-dollar
contract.

Our full letter to the DHB
outlining the concerns can be
read [9]here.

Stats NZ wades into the American
election

The day before the US election, our
Government's statistics agency
produced this graphic for social
media:

[10]Image removed by sender. Stats
NZ post

The post reads: "We thought we
would squeeze in some data before
the result. NZ imported 4.8 million
kgs of fresh oranges from the USA
in the year ended September 2020."

The image is clearly meant to be a
p*sstake of Donald Trump.

[11]As Newshub reports, we
challenged Stats NZ for using the
election of a close diplomatic ally
as social media fodder:

If a government department wants to
use humour on social media that’s
fine, but they should steer clear
of the culture wars and pandering
to what they think is politically
fashionable.

Stats NZ defended the post in the
Newshub piece, but has since
deleted it. Perhaps the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs had a stern word
with them!

A letter from Snoopy

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Have a great weekend,

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Louis Manager
circle New
Zealand
Taxpayers'
Union

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PS. The election may be over, but
the Debt Monster still stalks our
politicians. This week he
[16]welcomed newly-sworn-in
Ministers to Parliament as the
[17]official Government debt clock
ticked over one hundred thousand
million dollars.

Media coverage:

The Press  [18]Councillor's $12
parking ticket battle costs council
upwards of $14,000

Point of Order  [19]What a good
sport Robertson can be – if the
demand for free handouts of money
is too big, he will find some more

Newshub  [20]'Completely
inappropriate': Stats NZ under fire
for 'oranges' Facebook post

RNZ  [21]Wellington health board
panel member accused of conflict of
interest

Homepaddock  [22]Rural round-up

Politik  [23]Friendly fire; three
views of the National Party

The Press  [24]Taxpayer Union lends
support to Dunedin council over
unapologetic councillor

Magic Talk  [25]OPINION: Green MPs
will be kicked out of government by
Green Party members

 
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