I can go first.
We have not been consulted on a panel. We don't really know, because it hasn't been fully described, what such an agency or a panel would mean in this context. If an expert panel is simply to assess the vigour or robustness of our permitting system, then we are fine with that. If it's being set up to advise on specific permits, we would strongly oppose that, given the sluggishness already within the system.
On top of it, as I understand it, even individuals who are pro-panel and have made representations to you have acknowledged that no such panel exists in other nations upon which to base a model. That tells us that goods and services of this nature are instruments of foreign policy and fall under the consideration of governments themselves. The government cannot shift its legal responsibility for permit approvals to some external body.