Lynn Ruane (Independent)
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I have one more question, which is on the hugely important retrospective bit. It is not in the heads as we have seen them proposed. Some of the communication we received from the Minister or his Department over the past week or so was that a legal definition of a non-disclosure agreement is needed because there is no legal definition for it in any legislation. I find it interesting to say that all retrospective non-disclosure agreements stand, because they have never been regulated for. Basically, if we are saying that they never existed within legislation or regulation, they have to retrospectively fall. As there was no legal definition or regulation, they would not stand up in court. It is saying these are a non-thing. If we are only defining something now as a non-disclosure agreement, how does every other non-disclosure agreement exist?