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Knowledge of cruelty to animals by OSPRI shareholders

T. Benseman made this Official Information request to Damien O'Connor

Response to this request is long overdue. By law Damien O'Connor should have responded by now (details and exceptions). The requester can complain to the Ombudsman.

From: T. Benseman

Dear Damien O'Connor,

Have you read the online document "How Humane are our pest control tools" ? Seeing as our agriculture industry has been rail-roaded into a 10's of millions of dollars toxin spreading business by OSPRI NZ Ltd shareholders Beef + Lamb NZ Ltd, Dairy NZ and Deer Industry NZ to spread toxins that take 120 hours to kill wild pigs during which time they vomit 13.6 times on average before death and thousands of wild deer with similarly cruel outcomes, in order to address a false TB problem which was cured decades ago, I wonder if you have considered the risk our ag industry is open to by continuing this inhumane practice. If so please explain how you sleep at night by continuing it, and also explain what strategies we have in place to recover from a market crash should this information get to our international markets.

Thanks,

T Benseman

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From: Aeron Corlett

Good afternoon,

On behalf of Hon Damien O'Connor, thank you for your email dated 24 March 2019.

Your email has been passed on to the Minister for his consideration and you can expect a reply in due course.

Your email is considered to be more appropriately addressed as correspondence, and is therefore not being considered under the Official Information Act.

Thanks again for taking the time to write.

Kind regards,

Aeron

Aeron Corlett, Private Secretary (Executive Support)
Office of Hon Damien O'Connor
Minister of Agriculture
Minister for Biosecurity Food Safety and Rural Communities
Minister of State for Trade and Export Growth
MP for West Coast/Tasman
Private Bag 18 888, Parliament Buildings | Wellington
[email address] | www.labour.org.nz

Authorised by Hon Damien O'Connor, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

This email communication is confidential between the sender and the recipient. The intended recipient may not distribute it without the permission of the sender. If this email is received in error, it remains confidential and you may not copy, retain or distribute it in any manner. Please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and all attachments. Thank you.

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From: T. Benseman

Dear Aeron Corlett,
I disagree with your assessment. " strategies we have in place to recover from a market crash should this information get to our international markets." should be official information. Unless you actually don't have strategies?

Thanks,

T. Benseman

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From: Aeron Corlett

Good afternoon,

Re: Official Information Act request - OIA19-024

Thank you for your email of 27 March. After further consideration, the section of your correspondence where you request "strategies we have in place to recover from a market crash should this information get to our international markets." will now be considered under the Official Information Act 1982.

You will receive a response to this request within 20 working days, by 23 April 2019.

Kind regards,
Aeron

Aeron Corlett, Private Secretary (Executive Support)
Office of Hon Damien O'Connor
Minister of Agriculture | Minister for Biosecurity Food Safety and Rural Communities | Minister of State for Trade and Export Growth
MP for West Coast/Tasman
Private Bag 18 888, Parliament Buildings | Wellington | Phone: +64 4 817 8715 | Email: [email address]

Authorised by Hon Damien O'Connor, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

This email communication is confidential between the sender and the recipient. The intended recipient may not distribute it without the permission of the sender. If this email is received in error, it remains confidential and you may not copy, retain or distribute it in any manner. Please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and all attachments. Thank you.

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