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

The answer is 'could', because, as we've said earlier today, offsets can be delivered either by the proponent finding the offsets—in terms of the land that they might buy, maintain or regenerate—or equally, in certain circumstances, by the proponent being able to deliver their offsets requirement through financial contributions to that restoration fund. It's impossible to predict here and now whether a particular project would be required to meet 100 per cent of its offsets obligation or where it might be 90 per cent or 80 per cent. But absolutely it is entirely possible for those sorts of projects to contribute to that fund.