Hon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister of Justice): The member asked a very good question, and the member may or may not know that when the original bill—the one that was passed last week, in its deformed state—went to the select committee, because the select committee was split, was equally divided, it could not make a decision on the bill, including an obvious improvement to it that actually members opposite wanted, and so the bill was returned unchanged. Of course, there was no guarantee or indication that were that bill to be returned to the select committee, the select committee was in any better position to do anything other than what it did before, which was not make a decision and refer the bill back to the House unchanged. On that basis, given the track record of that committee in its handling of this legislation, there was no merit at all in returning the bill to that select committee.