The idea of putting the power with the Director-General of Health, who Elizabeth Kerekere recently referred to as an "it"—and I'd just like to stress the importance of getting people's pronouns right. As I understand it, Dr Ashley Bloomfield is a he/him and would be horrified to learn that he's actually been neutered by Elizabeth Kerekere in Parliament. But nevertheless, putting that small matter aside, Dr Bloomfield would be in charge of deciding whether local authorities should have to fluoridate their water. One of the challenges that that presents is that we actually don't know what the capability, or the local conditions faced at a practical level by the local authority, might be. So they look at the costs, they look at their equipment, and they look at the natural water conditions that they face. These are all considerations to do with the practical operation of the water utility, where it would seem that the local authority might be better placed to make judgments than a distant Ministry of Health. 