In terms of the role of regional councils, the assumption is, I guess, that there is a need for resource consent unless particular activities are largely permitted, either in a plan or, indeed, actually in an environmental standard. Nothing in this bill fundamentally will change that. Actually, instead, what the bill will seek to do is limit what a national environmental standard (NES) actually would do in terms of where it would apply. In fact, it goes further, in that it would, essentially, repeal part of a current NES. So if the rationale actually is to have decision making at a regional level—and I agree that, you know, regionalism and the importance of regional councils and others working together—this bill doesn't actually provide for that, because there is, as my colleague the Hon David Parker has already indicated, actually a role for national direction.