Premier tells member to take complaint to body which doesn't exist yet

Jeremy Rockliff says he doesn't know how the email was leaked, and he won't be investigating it. (ABC News: Ebony ten Broeke)

Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff says he won't investigate how an email containing the health-related information of an independent politician was leaked to the media.

Independent MLC Ruth Forrest had previously called for a formal apology and asked for the person responsible to be identified.

Mr Rockliff has suggested Ms Forrest could take up the issue with the yet-to-be-established Independent Complaints Commissioner.

Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff says he will not investigate how an email containing the health-related information of an upper house member was leaked to the media.

Independent MLC Ruth Forrest last Wednesday accused someone within the government of leaking the email which had initially been sent on her behalf to the Premier's department.

The email had requested ministers and officials refrain from wearing strong perfumes and aftershaves to this week's budget estimates hearings.

Ruth Forrest has asked for an apology after an email sent on her behalf was leaked to a media outlet. (ABC News: Ebony ten Broeke)

Ms Forrest, who chairs one of the four estimates committees, said she and others had previously experienced adverse reactions to strong fragrances.

Following the leak on Wednesday she used a speech in the upper house to demand an apology and called for the person responsible to be identified.

"I fear it was intended to minimise and trivialise a genuine health matter as well as to humiliate me," Ms Forrest said at the time.

The following day, she told the Upper House she had heard nothing from the Premier about her concerns.

"I cannot adequately describe how deeply disappointed I am," she said at the time.

Mr Rockliff remained silent on the issue until Tuesday when a question was put to him at an estimates committee chaired by independent MLC Rosemary Armitage.

"Can you advise whether you have investigated the leak?" Ms Armitage asked.

A Tasmanian independent politician is calling for an apology after her personal health-related request via email to the government was leaked to a media outlet.

Mr Rockliff said Ms Forrest had not raised the issue with him, and nor was he aware how the email had ended up in the media.

"I note that Ms Forrest's desire was to have her request distributed."

Mr Rockliff also suggested Ms Forrest could consider raising the issue with a complaints body.

"There is a mechanism for the Independent Complaints Commissioner, of which we are working through that establish