Proactive Release: Cyclone Recovery Unit briefings

The following documents have been proactively released by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, on behalf of Hon Mark Mitchell, Minister for Emergency Management and Recovery:

Cyclone Recovery Unit briefings

The following documents have been included in this release:

• Title of briefing: In principle approval for release of exposure drafts of SWERLA Orders in Council
• Title of briefing: Hawke’s Bay Region Silt Recovery Funding Request and Update
• Title of briefing: Cyclone Gabrielle Recovery Taskforce Report Back
• Title of briefing: Options for consideration: Cyclone Recovery dispute resolution mechanisms
• Title of briefing: Spending $2 million for small-scale community-led initiatives
• Title of briefing: Drawdown from the Local Government Flood Resilience Co-Investment Fund
• Title of briefing: Ministerial Approval of Regional Transport Projects under the 2023 North Island Weather Events Hawke’s Bay Crown Funding Agreement
• Title of briefing: Ministerial Approval of Risk Mitigation Projects under the 2022 Extreme Weather Event Nelson City Council Crown Funding Agreement
• Title of briefing: Ministerial approval to release funding to relocate the Waipawa Water Treatment Plant
• Title of briefing: Whenua Māori and Marae Pathway – Formal written offers to Tairāwhiti Marae: Hinemaurea ki Mangatuna, Ōkuri, Puketāwai, Rangatira, Takipū, and update on forecast expenditure across the pathway
• Title of briefing: Ministerial approval of projects under the North Island Weather Events (2023) Tairāwhiti Crown Funding Agreement
• Title of briefing: Ministerial Approval of projects under the North Island Weather Events (2023) Hawke’s Bay Crown Funding Agreement
• Title of briefing: Ministerial Approval to draw down tagged operating contingency for the Whenua Māori and Marae Pathway Cost Pressures
• Title of briefing: Ministerial approval of risk mitigation projects under the North Island Weather Events (2023) Hawke’s Bay Crown Funding Agreement
• Title of briefing: Ministerial approval of three projects under the North Island Weather Events (2023) Crown Funding Agreements
• Title of briefing: Amendment to the North Island Weather Events (2023) Auckland Crown Funding Agreement and Project Delivery Plan approvals
• Title of briefing: Ministerial Approval of Pump Station Upgrades Risk Mitigation Project under the Hawke’s Bay North Island Weather Events (2023) Crown Funding Agreement
• Title of briefing: Ministerial Approval of Final Risk Mitigation Projects under the North Island Weather Events (2023) Hawke’s Bay Crown Funding Agreement

Some parts of this information release would not be appropriate to release and, if requested, would be withheld under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). Where this is the case, the relevant section of the Act that would apply has been identified. Where information has been withheld, no public interest has been identified that would outweigh the reasons for withholding it.

Key to redaction codes:

• section 9(2)(a), to protect the privacy of individuals
• section 9(2)(b)(ii), to protect the commercial position of the person who supplied the information, or who is the subject of the information
• section 9(2)(d), to protect the substantial economic interests of New Zealand
• section 9(2)(g)(i), to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank expression of opinion
• section 9(2)(j), to enable negotiations to be carried on without prejudice or disadvantage.