Tçnâ koe Luke

Thank you for your OIA request to the Department of Internal Affairs (included with this email)

The Department will provide its response to your request as soon as practicable and within twenty working days. The 20th working day is 11 July 2023

Please note that in cases where the Department’s response provides information that is identified to be of general public interest, the response may also be published on the Department of Internal Affairs website. If the Department publishes its response to your OIA request, all personal information, including your name and contact details, will be removed.

Nâku, nâ

Michelle Reed (she/her)
Lead Advisor Official Correspondence | Information Management and Privacy
He Ringa Manaaki | Workplace Services Group
He Pou Aronui | Organisational Capability and Services
Te Tari Taiwhenua | Department of Internal Affairs
Level 3, 45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand | http://www.dia.govt.nz/

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Tçnâ koe Luke,

Thank you for your request for information detailed below.

To provide a satisfactory and effective response, we would like to further refine and clarify the scope of some parts of your request.

Regarding Part 1 of your request for:

"1. Please release all Local Government briefing papers in their entirety which were presented to the Minister of Local Government (Nanaia Mahuta) between the dates of 01 January 2020 and 31 July 2021 and where the Three Waters Reforms was the subject."

The current scope of your request is likely to be refused due to the substantial collation necessary to provide a complete and accurate response. There are many briefings to be considered over the specified timeframe that will need to be compiled and retrospectively reviewed and approved for release by a network of both internal and external parties.

We recommend the following options to refine the scope of part 1.

• As the scope is very broad in terms of timeframe and content, we believe it may be most helpful and efficient to narrow the timeframe in scope and then request a list of titles of briefings over a period of 1- 6 months. You will then be able to make any following requests for specific information from the list which may be managed more efficiently to satisfy the intentions of your request. This is a common procedure when broad requests for advice to the Minister are considered.

• The information you seek may be available in part or full as part of the archived documentation on the following link here: https://www.dia.govt.nz/Archived-Three-W...

We also encourage you to search for any additional publicly available information regarding the Water Reform Programme here: https://www.dia.govt.nz/Three-Waters-Ref...

Regarding Part 2 of your request for:

2. In a Local Government Briefing dated 26 February 2021 and titled "Three Waters Review: Mâori rights and interests", the Department of Internal Affairs referred to te ao Mâori rights in water. Specifically, in paragraph 9, it said "From a te ao Mâori consideration of water issues, the proposed reform of three waters service delivery arrangements is narrowly focused…".

Paragraph 10 then goes on to summarise the results.
2.1 Could you please release the details of that "te ao Maori consideration", what it contains, how it was conducted and who it was conducted by (e.g., Iwi, Department officials or someone else)?"

It would be helpful to clarify the expectations of information relating to the details 'of that "te au Maori consideration" ' requested in part 2.1. Are you able to identify further the nature of the documentation or information that would contain the specific 'details' you are expecting to be in scope of your request? Any further description of this part of your request will enable us to better locate any relevant or significant information and respond as soon as possible.

We look forward to any additional information so that we may progress with providing a response to your request.

Thanks again for your time.

Ngâ mihi nui

Tâne Griffin | Senior Ministerial Services Advisor, Ministerial Services
Water Services Reform Programme
Ue Te Hinâtore | Local Government Branch
Department of Internal Affairs | Te Tari Taiwhenua
[email address] | 45 Pipitea Street | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand | http://www.dia.govt.nz/

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Kia ora Luke

Thanks for your prompt response.
I am glad that the links provided some helpful information.

I will assess the remainder of your refinement with advisors and come back to you if there are any further questions. At this stage unless you hear more from us we anticipate a response to be with you within 20 working days.

Thanks again for your response.

Nga mihi nui

Tāne Griffin | Senior Ministerial Services Advisor, Ministerial Services
Water Services Reform Programme
Ue Te Hinātore | Local Government Branch
Department of Internal Affairs | Te Tari Taiwhenua
[email address] | 45 Pipitea Street | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand | http://www.dia.govt.nz/

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Tēnā koe Luke

 

Please find attached the response to your request for information.

 

Ngā mihi nui

 

Tāne Griffin | Senior Ministerial Services Advisor, Ministerial Services

Water Services Reform Programme

Ue Te Hinātore | Local Government Branch
Department of Internal Affairs | Te Tari Taiwhenua 

[1][email address] | 45 Pipitea Street | PO Box 805, Wellington
6140, New Zealand |  [2]www.dia.govt.nz 

 

 

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