The key here is that the rules are rolled out in the form of ministerial instruction. It's not regulation. It's not statute. After a dinner party, the ministerial instruction may be changed, and 12 hours later changed again. It's that absence of parliamentary protection that serves as my concern.
The institution protects the public. The protection of the institution is absent when the rules can be changed daily at the whim of a minister. However, in my view, it is perhaps reasonable and justifiable in a free and democratic society, as long as there's a counterbalance safeguard to ensure that our ministerial instruction system is not politicized. We have the right to know that one industry over another is not unduly favoured, one business over another, one family over another.
It's that absence of oversight, that causes me some concern that can be alleviated by an ombudsperson.