Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Amendment? I'll come back to you on that. We're just trying to dig out the amendment number. As I said, I'll be paraphrasing here, but in essence what the amendment seeks to do is to give the Threatened Species Scientific Committee a role in establishing whether there are particular species that are so endangered that the environmental offsets should not occur in the form of restoration fund payments. There would be probably a fairly small category of species, and if an offset was required then that would need to be delivered on a like-for-like project basis, as opposed to making a payment into the restoration fund. I'll come back to you with the amendment, and that will no doubt express it a lot more clearly and accurately than I have, but that's the general principle.