Dean JacquiHon JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): Thank you Madam Chair. I have a number of questions for the Minister in the Chair. I have three questions in fact—all three are for clarification. The Minister in his last intervention noted that there needed now to be agreement between the board and chief executive on the appointment of State services and on the appointment of a chief executive. I'm assuming he was referring to clause 4(2) but then we go on to 4(2A) which really is the kicker in Part 1 which says the board must obtain the written consent of the State Services Commissioner …". So I'd like the Minister to just clarify which of those two clauses he was referring to when he made the intervention because while "agreement" sounds entirely reasonable I think "consent" is an entirely different matter. It comes to the very point of Part 1 of this bill so I do seek some clarification. In the context of the comments that the Minister was making which clause was he referring to because I think it does matter for the Hansard for the Minister to be very clear about what he understands about Part 1 of this bill?The second query I have for the Minister is around his outlining of good process—good due process—in the appointment of chief executives in the State sector and Crown entities. The Minister did mention that Ministers will send a letter of expectation to Crown entities in the sure and certain knowledge that they will get a reply and there will be discussion about that and so the Crown entity then goes on understanding very fully the priorities and the expectations of the Minister. I was interested in those comments because we have a couple of examples right now where there are—is it two or three?—Crown entities which have not received letters of expectation. Ōtākaro is one of them and the other one is—Hon Nicky Wagner: Southern Response.Hon JACQUI DEAN: Yes Southern Response. So we have two Crown entities which haven't received a letter of expectation from their Minister the Hon Megan Woods.So where does that leave this Minister in terms of being a champion of good process in ministerial work with a Crown entity where the Minister in this case Megan Woods has not even submitted—has not even sent—a letter of expectation to these two Crown entities so that they are effectively operating under the previous Government which by the way was a very good Government and set some very good letters of expectations? Maybe this is an acknowledgment by that Minister in particular in this Government that the letters of expectation sent by the Hon Gerry Brownlee were in fact not only set for purpose under the former National Government but also so exemplary that they would continue under this new regime for now—what?—11 months.So I am interested to hear from the Minister around whether he believes—and it was his words in the contribution he made about good process around the appointment of chief executives and how important a letter of expectations was. The Minister said so himself. I'd like him to therefore explain and perhaps outline the conduct and inner thinking of his fellow Minister who has failed to do that so that for 11 months there have been two Crown entities which have been rudderless in this current Government. He can tell the committee whether he believes that that is good process.The third issue which I would like to traverse and seek the comment of the Minister on is around clause 4(1): "A chief executive of a statutory entity is appointed for a term of not more than 5 years but may be reappointed." This is what I'm interested about in this clause: the reappointment process—"may be reappointed". So what exactly does that mean? I'd like the Minister to come to his feet when I've finished my intervention and explain to the committee what that—[Time expired]"