Damien O’Connor
Primary Industries Spokesperson

9 October 2013

O’Connor to introduce MPI to Google

Amidst the chaos of the Ministry of Primary Industries’ restructuring the Ministry appears to have lost the ability to do a simple Google search, Labour’s Primary Industries spokesperson Damien O’Connor says.

“As a result of the Ministry’s outrageous spending of $175,579 with lobbyist Senate Communications I decided to place an Official Information Act request with the Ministry to see if my colleagues or I had been the topic of their conversations, as was the case with Solid Energy and their $48,000 spent with Saunders Unsworth.

“However, MPI have come back asking for a list of Labour MPs and their staff. It would appear that they don’t actually know how to find out who Labour MPs are.

“It therefore only seems right then I introduce them Google, so they can find out themselves. Googling ‘labour members of parliament nz’ provides several authoritative links.

“While on Google they can learn lots of other interesting things, for example the difference between a snapper and a sheep or read a Russian newspaper to find out what New Zealand exports Russia has and hasn’t banned.

“After all, as the old adage goes; ‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.’ Unless of course that fish is actually a sheep and found in PKE”, Damien O’Connor says.

ENDS

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