Mr. Paul Savage:

It was a general point about use. I mentioned it from a whole-of-government point of view. We now have the type of quality data coming out of ACRES that we really have not had before. It is not just data coming from the scheme itself with regard to the results-based growing that is happening around the country, it is also in the context of the things we have to do as part of the capital strategic plan implementation such as evaluating and monitoring the impact of that on biodiversity, and other environmental criteria as well. All the data being collected now as part of the scheme, and which will be added to in the context of monitoring the overall impact of the scheme, are new, fresh and up to date. This is a baseline that we simply have not had up until now in the context of the biodiversity impact, habitats and the state of lands throughout the country. We have certainly not had data on this scale in terms of 25% agricultural land, which is 1.15 million ha we have scored. This provides massive potential in the context of making those environmental schemes more effective in the future and when it comes to collaboration with colleagues in other Departments, for example, the Department of housing, the National Parks and Wildlife Service and elsewhere. We can combine our efforts in a more targeted way to achieve improvements from the point of view of biodiversity, water quality or whatever. In principle, the more data one has in these situations, the better quality programme one can implement. That is what I was getting at there. It was a general point. We can explore the possibilities in the future as how these data might be used but I think the very fact we have them, and such a comprehensive scope of information, provides major potential for the future.