Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR (Minister of Agriculture): I'd like to follow on and acknowledge the challenges that many of those farmers in Canterbury are facing up to. As someone who is very familiar with the effects of flooding from the West Coast, I know all too well and all too often the challenges, and, indeed, I saw this morning again where a farmer was saying that they are having to look at what needs to be done next. The issue of the regional council allowing action to occur in the river waste—that should happen. There shouldn't be a blockage to that. It still does beg the question: what's the best thing for the farmers to do next? It might be bringing in a bulldozer or it might be bringing in a digger, but there's still a lot of work to be done. 