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| New questions over MP rugby trips ethics |
| By TVNZ |
| Published: 09/24/2007 |
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NEW ZEALAND - MPs who traveled on the recent controversial parliamentary rugby tour to France could be in fresh trouble. Prime Minister Helen Clark is questioning whether it was appropriate for them to accept an international trip subsidized by commercial sponsors. An official tour party of 39 people with cheap airfares and hotel rooms went to France in September. The trip is now notorious for catching out Corrections Minister Damien O'Connor who agreed to include a suspended prison officer on the team. The team was made up of MPs, parliamentary workers and their spouses. It was not tax payer funded but sponsored by companies such as Adidas, McDonald's, Visa and Air New Zealand. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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