ACC Minister maintains she did not leak email

A news report from Radio New Zealand National

ACC Minister Judith Collins says she did not leak an email which is now part of a Privacy Commission inquiry. The Privacy Commissioner is investigating how the name of ACC claimant Bronwyn Pullar ended up in the media.
Ms Pullar's name and information about her dealings with the Accident Compensation Corporation were leaked to a newspaper in early March. The information came from an email sent to Judith Collins by Ms Pullar's friend, former National Party president Michelle Boag, who says she did not leak it.
Labour Party MP Trevor Mallard says National Party supporter Simon Lusk acted as a conduit between the ACC Minister and one of her blogger friends with the information. Mr Mallard told Radio New Zealand's Morning Report programme on Wednesday he does not believe the Privacy Commissioner has the powers or technical skills to find out how it was leaked.
"The other thing that she can't do is, she can't put people on oath and she can't require information in the way that, for example a QC or a judge doing a ministerial inqiury could."
Judith Collins told reporters on Wednesday that Simon Lusk is not someone she or her staff have dealings with.
But Labour's ACC spokesperson Andrew Little says it should not be too hard for a well-trained investigator to find out what the trail was and where it came from. He believes Judith Collins is right in the thick of it.
"I think she's got to think very hard about how it could have got out. Because at the moment, she was the one who it was addressed to who got it from Michelle Boag and she's the obvious suspect.
"So you've got to have pretty good evidence to get her off the hook."
The chairman of the Accident Compensation Corporation board says the leak did not come from ACC.

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