41917 (2025). Lemauga Lydia Sosene to the Minister for Children

41917 (2025). Lemauga Lydia Sosene to the Minister for Children: How many international flights in total, if any, counting each leg of a journey as an individual flight, has each department or entity that the Minister is responsible for paid for in the period from November 27th 2023 to August 1st 2025; and what was the total cost broken down by month, destination, cabin class and the purpose of the flight?

Hon Karen Chhour: I refer the Member to the attached table for the information requested. Please note this only includes travel by Oranga Tamariki staff members. Information regarding international flights for children and young people in care paid for by Oranga Tamariki would require significant manual collation and I am not prepared to ask this of my officials at this time. As such, in accordance with the Speaker’s Ruling 199-3, I consider that the time, and therefore the expense, of answering the Member’s question is not in the public interest.