Environment committee  In our audits, we've been looking at this for several years. We are going through every department to see how well they're doing on this, so you'll hear about another four or five departments next year until we've done all of them. Generally, we have found that this cabinet dire

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  That is correct. In half of them they were able to tell us.

Environment committee  Our audit looked at whether or not the companies were tracking their approval conditions and whether or not they were following up on company deficiencies, and we found that in 50% of the cases they were and in 50% of the cases they were not. Regarding the cases where they were n

Environment committee  The answer is yes.

Environment committee  We haven't audited that yet, so that will be the next one.

Environment committee  Remember that this was a cabinet directive on strategic environmental assessment. Most people know about environmental assessment when it comes to projects. If you're going to build a mine, you have to do an environmental assessment. This tool was to talk about policies, program

Environment committee  Right. It was to not just look at the social and the economic, but also to look at the environmental implications. We found that this tool of strategic environmental assessment was used in five out of 1,700 proposals that went to ministers. It was much better when it went to cabi

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  I would agree. I know PMRA had been thinking about removing the conditionals for a little while, but we've audited this issue several times and each time we've found pesticides that have been conditionally registered, which is okay, but for two decades, for more than five years,

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I think that's a great question to ask PMRA. What are they going to do with the ones that are out there now?

Environment committee  Could you repeat the question?

Environment committee  That would be a question for parliamentarians to make a decision on as opposed to the commissioner.