I actually think it's helpful, in the sense that I don't think the office as it's currently organized could in fact organize to cope with what I think would be a flood of requests for investigation, and even deciding which of those were trivial or not appropriate would take an enormous resource. I think it does make it somewhat simpler if an MP or a member of the Senate has in fact taken a look at the material and decided that there seems to be something substantial there. But obviously it limits access. Clearly that's the case.
On September 20th, 2006. See this statement in context.