Along with a couple of dozen colleagues, COA deputy chairman Lin Hsiang-neng mingled with the crowd, explaining that the amendment bill was the product of extensive discussions with experts and insisting that the COA would stick to its position. But Lin was later quoted as saying that the government's version of the bill was "not unrevisable."
時任農委會副主委的林享能則率領同仁走入群眾，表示農委會將堅持政院版的農發條例，但隨後他也說出政院版本「不是不能改」。