Mr. M. McDowell: Senator Higgins must realise that the judge was not deciding that issue. I have to decide how to deal with people on a costing basis. I have to hold the scales evenly between them. He was not being asked to decide on that matter. The judge's remarks are, with respect to him, obiter. He did not have to decide that issue, but I am charged with doing so. If I go down the road of aiding some people involved with this tribunal by paying their costs as matters proceed, I could not morally justify doing so by reference to some prejudgment that they had been treated in a worse fashion that others involved in the process.