Papers the Tip of the Iceberg - Sowry
Tuesday, 22 October 2002, 5:41 pm
Press Release: New Zealand National Party
Papers the Tip of the Iceberg - Sowry
National says
papers released today by the Labour Government on Dr Ross
Armstrong’s insider group are just the tip of the
iceberg.
“What Doctor Cullen is asking us to believe is
that for a meeting that lasted two and a quarter hours and
had three parts, no briefing notes were prepared and nor
were any notes taken,” says National’s acting leader Roger
Sowry.
“That’s simply not credible.
“For the past four
days Dr Cullen claimed no papers on the meetings existed,
yet late today he’s released documents, although they don’t
go any of the way to explaining away the Government’s
involvement in Dr Armstrong’s PPP scheme.
“It would seem
to me that this material’s been written after the meetings
and we will continue to pursue the release of all material
on Dr Armstrong’s group through the Official Information
Act,”Mr Sowry says.
“National now reiterates its call for
Labour to come clean explain and deliver the papers we’ve
been asking for over the past four days,” says Mr Sowry.
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