Senator Malcolm Noonan

Well, first of all, I agree with everything Paul has said there, Matt, and certainly our Climate Committee is the place to do that.

I think James O'Connor's bill is premature at this stage

its cart before the horse in terms of a legislative bill.

I do think we need to have a conversation about it, but we don't really have the luxury of time here.

We have in the last government, the Greens have put in the infrastructural framework around the offshore renewables and to really ramp that up.

and we are seeing a stalling on that now.

So where did they come from, Matt?

They came from the map back that we brought in, they came in from

setting up MARA, setting up the infrastructure to allow the renewables and the concessions on the offshore.

That's where they came from, the 2020-2024 programme for government when the Greens were there.

So we're seeing the benefit of that now.

What we are seeing is the government bringing in an infrastructure bill that is disapplying the Climate Act.

There's no scrutiny on it.

Our committee is due to discuss the issue of nuclear, actually, as it happens at my request, particularly in relation to an issue around Sellafield.

in Cumbria, where there has been significant challenge there.

And the House of Commons version of PAC, Public Accounts Committee, has a damning report on the safety issues at Sellafield.

Well, let's have the conversation about that.

And I agree with what Paul is saying there.

The reality is the waste issues are going to be around for tens of thousands of years.

And I think the safety issues are ongoing at Sellafield because of underinvestment there.