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Hipkins in August refused to release the agreements to Newsroom despite an Official Information Act request, citing commercial sensitivity. That case is now before the Ombudsman. In separate cases where requesters sought pricing and delivery details from New Zealand's vaccine agreements, the Ombudsman decided that releasing the information would be too damaging to New Zealand's public interest. "There was a very real risk that making that information available would have an adverse impact on the security of New Zealand’s Covid-19 vaccine supply, both now and for the future. The potential consequences should New Zealand’s access to Covid-19 vaccines be compromised would be severe," the Ombudsman concluded. The prices that numerous other countries paid for their vaccines are publicly available and there is no evidence that these countries experienced any retribution as a result of the release.
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