The analogy for this bill to be likened somehow to the sale and purchase of a house at auction is not a bad place to start. But it doesn't really reflect the complexity or the importance of this piece of legislation, or, indeed, the mistake that has been made and overlooked by Minister Hon James Shaw who usually is better than he has been on this bill. Because what we're going to find out in a minute or two is that there has been a long, protracted, tangled web of incompetence around this particular piece of legislation that dates back now well over 12 months.