I could imagine if it were pertinent, but it often isn't. It's often such a small factor in a much larger picture that it often isn't really terribly relevant, but from time to time it might be. It's partly a question of how far you want to go in differentiating between real conflicts of interest and apparent conflicts of interest.
There is an argument, as I've said in one of my annual reports, of whether or not the Ethics Commissioner should deal altogether with apparent conflicts of interest or whether that's more of a political issue, which needs to be dealt with in another arena. I haven't satisfied myself about the appropriate answer to that question, but I do know that if you give me any particular individual, I will find an apparent conflict of interest with any particular policy matter if I look hard enough. But it will be apparent; it won't be real. So the issue is not unimportant, but very difficult to get hold of.
