3402 (2024). Hon Willie Jackson to the Minister for Māori Development

3402 (2024). Hon Willie Jackson to the Minister for Māori Development: What correspondence, if any, has the Minister or any member of his office, had with Whaakata Maori reporters, staff, board of directors and senior leadership regarding Maori media funding including, but not limited to, text messages, emails, phone calls, signal, whats app or any other digital online communication service.

Hon Tama Potaka: A search for such communications would require my staff to undertake a substantial manual collation exercise and divert staff from their core duties. In accordance with Speaker’s Ruling 199-3, I consider that the time, and hence the expense, of answering this question in the timeframe allowed for written parliamentary questions, is not in the public interest.