Kia ora Te Ringa,

 

Thank you for your request for official information received on 13 October
2021 for:

 

"1. I seek the messaging and phone records of calls, text messages,
emails, etc,  between Ministry of Health Principal Advisor Mental Health
and Addictions Waiatamai Tamehana and Te Ringa Mangu Mihaka between
February , March and April 2020.

 

2. I seek any memoranda, notes, emails and phone and message records,
particularly text messages, between Waiatamai Tamehana and ANY Government
minister or staff member, especially in regard to the meeting we had with
her and Bernard Te Paa, Principal Ministry Advisor, Maori Health, on 8
March 2020 regarding the fraudulent misuse of a document, funding fraud,
etc, involving Tui Taurua and the group Nga Hau E Wha, who the Ministry
continues to fund despite evidence of ineligibility and fraud.

 

3. I seek any memoranda, notes, emails and phone and message records
between Waiatamai Tamehana and ANY Government minister or staff member, in
regard to the meeting I and another representative of Waitangi marae had
with two Ministry staff at the offices of ACC on 12 or 13 March 2020 to
discuss our formal complaint about the phone calls and text messages
received in the middle of the night and throughout the early hours of the
morning from the phone of the Principal Ministry Advisor Mental Health and
Addictions Waiatamai Tamehana, in which she claimed to be "Karen Browne"
and tried to persuade us to withdraw our initial complaint about Tui
Taurua.

 

4. I seek in particular copies of all the photographs these two women we
met with on the 12th or 13th took of the evidence on the screen of my
phone of the messages we received just after midnight on 12 March 2020
from the phone of Waiatamai Tamehana, and all notes, and all other
information, about that meeting, and our complaint about the phone calls
and text messages.

 

5. I seek any internal communications regarding the same incident,
including internal advice regarding the public relations implications
regarding this same incident.

 

6. I seek all information about what investigations, if any, the Ministry
took into our complaints regarding Tui Taurua and the fraudulent misuse of
the document bearing our information and signatures at Waitangi marae on
Waitangi day 2018, and the evidence of funding fraud involving Nga Hau E
Wha from Changing Minds and MHAPS among others.”

 

The Ministry's reference number for your request is: H202114634.

 

As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Ministry will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 11 November 2021, being
20 working days after the day your request was received.

 

Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic response, the Ministry is experiencing
significantly higher volumes of queries and requests for information. If
we are unable to respond to your request within this time frame, we will
notify you of an extension of that time frame.

 

If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
get in touch.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

OIA Services

Government Services

Office of the Director-General

Ministry of Health

E: [1][email address]

 

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Kia ora Te Ringa Mangu Mihaka

 

 

Please find attached a letter regarding your request for information.

 

Under section 67 of the Privacy Act 2020 and section 28(3) of the Official
Information Act 1982, you have the right to ask the Privacy Commissioner
and the Ombudsman to review any decisions made under this request.

 

 

Ngā mihi

 

OIA Services Team

[1]www.health.govt.nz

[2]Ministry of Health information releases

[3]Unite against COVID-19

 

 

 

 

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