Despite the assertion that the select committee doesn't have a full programme at the moment, it's still a waste of Parliament's and the select committee's time. It's unacceptable. The select committee will be thinking about looming Resource Management Act reforms and other business, like looking closely into the very complex nature of Crown pastoral leases and the people that that affects. This is a distraction and it's unnecessary, and the reason it's unnecessary is because the emissions trading scheme is a market and most markets I've been to, if you go and buy your fruit and vegetables, or even if you go to the supermarket, don't require the Government to tell you what the minimum price is, what the maximum price is, and what the secret price is. I've never been to a market like that, but my learned colleague who taught, at Auckland University, for many years taxation law who also sits on the select committee may be able to enlighten me about the kind of markets that she's experienced which have those type of controls. I'm not familiar with them, and I don't think it's worth wasting the select committee's time on that.