to return as he had "moved on". Instead diplomat Paul Foster-Bell took the role. Business career Quinn has connections to the Ngāti Awa and Ngāi Tūhoe iwi and worked as a manager in the Department of Maori Affairs (now Te Puni Kōkiri) between 1979 and 1984. Quinn is director and sole owner of "MOCOM LIMITED" (formerly called "M COMMERCE LIMITED"), was a director of the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences from 1992–1998 and is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors. He is also a director of White Island Tours, which ran tours to Whakaari/White Island, up to and including its eruption in 2019. References External links Parliamentary biography National Party website NZRU Biography 1951 births Living people New Zealand National Party MPs New Zealand rugby union players Māori All Blacks players Māori MPs New Zealand list MPs New Zealand sportsperson-politicians Unsuccessful candidates in the 2011 New Zealand general election Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives 21st-century New Zealand politicians Ngāti Awa people Ngāi Tūhoe people Lincoln University (New Zealand) alumni New Zealand rugby union coaches People educated at Chanel College, Masterton