Mr. Paul Hogan:

I was going to come in on that very issue. Going back to my experience in local authorities, it was not uncommon for people to misrepresent the views of certain residents in some cases and speak on their behalf when they would not necessarily agree. In other situations, people would speak on behalf of vacant houses where it was understood that this could be another person or suggested somebody was in support of something; and deceased people, which cause great offence in some instances. This was not a one-off. This was a reasonably regular occurrence for very large-scale development that attracted multiple and significant concern or representation. It can get quite confusing as to who was talking on behalf of whom, who was representing whom, what people’s views are and who is included. It is to bring clarity to the situation.