Report 11: 2017

Opinion on Ministerial Notification

Opinion

The decisions by the Minister not to provide the information requested by Parliament were not reasonable and therefore not appropriate, as a significant amount of the information was already publicly available. However, the Minister followed an appropriate process in that her decisions were consistent with the advice she was provided and the advice was from a proper source and sufficiently convincing.

The Department of Water’s advice to the Minister was nevertheless incorrect in that it failed to advise the Minister that much of the business case was already publicly available and that these components could be released.

 

 
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