Do any of the departments affected have a perspective on what the net effect has been? In other words, has the acknowledged slowness in certain things coming together caused problems? Do we know whether there has been risk to species because we didn't get things together in terms of the beginning phase?
There's been a lot of talk about potential economic harm. Do we have any idea whether the processes have caused economic harm? Is there any way of picking that up in the sense of things? Obviously we're trying to use as much of your experience as possible to improve the circumstances going forward. I think those are some of the baseline considerations. Are we protecting species? Are these start-up delays, or is something more added? We don't want to leave the "nots" huge to deal with.
Secondly, what have we learned about those interactions that we need to deal with? Particularly, do any of the departments have studies or analysis that would help us on those factors? What do we know about the experience of the act to date that should inform any revisions? This is the chance to improve your lives here, but more importantly the purposes of the act to deliver something that can improve outcomes.