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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-125/
- Published: 2020-05-12T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-05-12T21:17:48.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: COVID-19, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

> Bridges last week challenged **Bloomfield**, the director general of health, during a meeting of the Epidemic Response Select Committee last week, saying the Ministry of Health had **failed to answer written questions** from the committee.

> “Why don’t you answer simple health questions, to the one parliamentary committee on this remarkably significant issue … You just aren’t answering despite repeated requests,” Bridges said.

> “I think it comes down to one simple thing, you don’t want to answer because you want to control the information flow.”

> \[…\] Bloomfield, in the letter, said he would make his response to Bridges’ claims public due to the high level of interest in the matter.

> Bridges on Tuesday stood by his assertion, saying it took an average of two or two and a half weeks for the ministry to respond to the committee.

> \[…\] “We had a right as Parliament to be getting timely answers, and that certainly did not happen.”

> The committee last week issued a summons of Bloomfield, as well as the Solicitor-General and the police commissioner, asking them to hand over the Crown Law legal advice behind the lockdown.

> How Bloomfield and the others named in the summons will respond is unknown. The Attorney-General afterward escalated matters further, asking the Speaker to refer the matter to the Privileges Committee.  
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> [stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/121484941/coronavirus-dr-ashley-bloomfield-pushes-back-at-simon-bridges-over-failure-to-answer-simple-questions-claim](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/121484941/coronavirus-dr-ashley-bloomfield-pushes-back-at-simon-bridges-over-failure-to-answer-simple-questions-claim?ref=goodoil.news)