Stuff: “That decision had nothing to do with public complaints, or my status. “In hindsight it probably wasn’t the right way to go about it, saying things on social media … but the most important thing is we applied for this through all the appropriate channels, provided all the evidence that we had to for the situation, and our application was granted based on that and nothing else.” When asked about an exemption for the Abercrombie family, the Ministry of Health told
Stuff “this was not a health-related decision”. A Ministry of Health spokeswoman later clarified this meant the decision was not made by the ministry or other public health officials from Auckland DHB, not that it was not related to health.