Hon ANDREW LITTLE: The director-general, as the head of the ministry in control of data that has been the subject of a request, has a number of statutory duties and obligations to meet, not the least of those under the Privacy Act. These are the issues that have been canvassed in the High Court in two hearings now. The way that the director-general has gone about discharging his obligations both to the requester and to the people about whose information those requests have been about—it is for the director-general to make sure that he is upholding his obligations. It is the director-general and/or the ministry whose decisions are reviewable in court, and it is not for a Minister to direct the director-general on how to make a decision that is reviewable.