But coming back to the natural resource redress in this bill, this bill provides for joint-management agreements between Ngāti Maru and local government—the Taranaki Regional Council—and that is in relation to any exercise of the local authority's functions, powers, and duties relating to a natural and physical resource. Yet most New Zealanders would expect that resource consent decisions taken under the Resource Management Act are actually impartial and free from interference and influence by those who do not have an elected role and are actually not subject to all of the controls on regional councils, for example, which limit the exercise of their decision making. 