I'm not necessarily opposed to changes to the User Fees Act, because it is a cumbersome piece of legislation. It was created by a private member's bill, and obviously a private member's bill that we just don't have the resources as government to put together. However, the government of the day decided that it would work with the private member and thus we put in place a system that was very cumbersome to update user fees.
This is my current challenge with this: is it theoretically possible that a department that is well managed and is able to reduce costs would have increases to user fees, since they are linked to the CPI, even though the service itself should be self-liquidating and there should not be a profit mode for government? Is that theoretically possible under this arrangement?