Terms of reference for Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Strategy Group information

Details of the request

Under the Official Information Act 1982, I would like to request the following information.
  
In the Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Strategy Group meeting dated 15th June 2018 it stated; 
  
8.5 Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Strategy Group Terms of Reference Review 
  
Key Points

MfE to provide advice regarding process to amend the membership and Terms of Reference and any affect it may have on the funding Deed.

Further inclusion of scope for the Strategy Group included: climate change impacts, lake related biosecurity matters, fisheries bylaw enforcement, Lake Tarawera as a Deed funded lake.

1. What was the Ministry for Environment's advice regarding the Terms of Reference and any affect it may have on the funding Deed with Lake Tarawera as a Deed funded lake?
   
   On 27th March 2008, Prime Minister Helen Clark made an announcement of Major Government Funding for Restoration Project for Rotorua Lakes. The commitment was $72.1M over ten years to see the Rotorua Lakes Protection and Restoration Programme implemented. The protection and restoration action programme includes measures to address the different sources of nutrients entering those four priority lakes. 
   One of the key components was; 
   * Construction or extension of sewerage works to pick up waste from un-sewered lakeside communities around Lakes Rotorua, Rotoiti and Okareka.
2. Could MfE please provide a schedule including dates of payments, amount of payments, and entity the payments were made to for the Rotorua Lakes Protection and Restoration Programme commitment of $72.1M?
3. Were any of the payments made for the intention or purpose of construction or extension of sewerage works to pick up waste from un-sewered communities from the Rotorua Lakes Protection and Restoration Programme commitment of $72.1M? If so, how much was paid, and which lakes' sewerage works were contributed to from the fund?