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Showing posts with label Lobbyists. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Point of Order: Hobbling the lobbyists – the PM calls it “transparency”....



.....but what is being done to make ministers comply with the OIA?

The Prime Minister’s proposals to hobble political lobbyists were the big headline-grabbing announcement on the Beehive website when we checked this morning.

Chris Hipkins yesterday announced four measures to put lobbyists on the same footing as any other citizen who might want to contact the inhabitants of the Beehive.

But one of those measures is a call for advice which he won’t receive until next year and two of the others are requests for someone else to take the action he wants taken.