JOSEPH MOONEY (National—Southland): Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to ask the member some more questions around this issue of remuneration and the Māori constituencies. In clause 10A(4), it says "The Council must make the payments required … even if doing so exceeds any total amount payable to elected members of the Council determined by the Remuneration Authority." At the Māori Affairs Committee, we heard from the chair of the Remuneration Authority, the Hon Dame Fran Wilde, who said that the Canterbury Regional Council (Ngāi Tahu Representation) Bill had been designed with respect to the remuneration of the two new proposed appointed positions on the council. She said the bill is designed to protect the remuneration of elected members of the Canterbury Regional Council, and she made the point that it's already the highest-paid regional council in New Zealand, and it would put that council in a privileged position that would be unfair to all other councils in the country.