Hon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Minister. There was some concern expressed at the Environment Committee as to whether indeed the Minister of Climate Change was actually the right person to be setting the confidential reserve price, and I'm interested to know whether the Minister took advice about any alternatives to the setting of a confidential auction price by a process that maybe didn't involve him as Minister. The reason that people raised some concerns about it is that there is an obvious correlation between the Minister of Climate Change, the auction process, the involvement of quite significant financial transactions, and the effectiveness and efficacy of the whole emissions trading scheme system. 