What is also very important from where we are sitting, we think what should happen here in South Africa, if you consider the UK example where if people want a matter of public importance to be debated in Parliament they can have a petition if it exceeds 10 000 signatures - an online petition. If it exceeds 100 000 signatures, for example, that compels Parliament to debate a particular issue. It means we will be true to the fact that we are Parliament of the people and we are informed by what happens outside in what we do inside this Parliament. There are lot of things that we have learnt form the trip. They are not a waste of time.
Our recommendation would be that at the beginning of each term, maybe Chief Whips should embark on these trips so that they can learn and have enough time ...[Time expired.]
House Chair, thank you very much for the opportunity. Where is my time? ... [Interjections.] ... It is there. You know, as we mark 25 years of our young democratic dispensation as Chief Whip