Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment): Well, I suppose, again, it's not a cut and dry answer for that, because page 95 of the bill, at clause 32 of Schedule 6, says that a panel may decline a consent application or a notice of requirement for a listed project if the panel considers the granting of a consent or confirming or modifying a notice of requirement would be inconsistent with any Treaty settlement. That issue would still have been before this panel, so it could have turned it down. So there wouldn't have been absolute certainty. But the member is right that Resource Management Act Part 2 considerations about what is the right balance outside of Treaty considerations would have been beyond the purview of the panel, and I don't think that would be right in respect of this particular application. 