Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:31): I can tell you, Senator O'Neill, what we will not be doing, and that is embracing your idea of an EIS, because that will continue to put upward pressure on prices. We will be back to the same price escalation we saw during the period of the Labor government. The PRESIDENT: Pause the clock. A point of order, Senator O'Neill? Senator O'Neill: A point of order, on relevance. I asked a very, very simple question: will the government work with Labor to implement a genuine clean energy target? Not another scheme, but a clean energy target. The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator O'Neill. I understand the point of your point of order, but the Attorney-General did say that he could say what he would not be doing, and he indicated that he would not be working with Labor in that sense. I technically believe that the Attorney-General has been answering the question. Senator BRANDIS: Thank you, Mr President. As you know, Senator O'Neill, Dr Finkel has recommended a clean energy target. Dr Finkel's report is being considered by the government through our normal party room and cabinet processes at the moment. I can tell you what we will not be doing: we will not be working with you to introduce a scheme favoured by the Labor Party but rejected by this government for an EIS, because we know that that would put further upward pressure on electricity prices. We will not be doing that, but we will invite you, Senator O'Neill, and those who sit with you, when the government's response to the Finkel report is published and announced, to work with the government to put this period of policy confusion—much of it your creation—behind us. (Time expired)