Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment): In respect of farm plans more generally as opposed to the intensive winter-grazing module, having farm plans as an alternative to resource consents was an idea that was promoted by the farming community which Government accepted. It allows a farm-by-farm solution to local issues. The farming community wanted this, and, in the end, the regional council sector and Government officials agreed that that was the way forward. In order for them to be a substitute for legally binding resource consent conditions to control adverse environmental effects, they do have to have some rigour about them, and people have to be held accountable if they're saying they're going to do something a certain way to, for example, reduce sediment load. 