There are two issues there. One is funding. I believe the minister is going to be appearing in front of this committee within the next couple of weeks to address estimates. Questions on the government's decisions around overall funding are best addressed to the minister, I might say.
In terms of independence, some of the work that we support is, in fact, undertaken through independent bodies, but much of it, of course, we undertake ourselves or jointly with partners. In those cases I think the important features are the actual design of the monitoring—the water quality or water monitoring activities—so they adhere to standards that have been established within the scientific community to ensure that they're robust, that the results are transferable over time, and that they can stand up to external scrutiny. I think both of my colleagues can speak to the standards that the different monitoring activities are designed to adhere to.