Chairlady, very little remains for me to say. At the end of this, I'd like to thank all the members who took time to go through and deliberate on the Bill, and who came here today to support it.
I'm very sympathetic to the member of the DA, hon Watson. However, the bulk of his concerns do seem to have a bearing on the workings of the House, rather than the Bill itself. He took time to actually deliberate on the legislative processes, but I wish to put that aside because he did not deal with the Bill itself. However, one point needs to be made that the hon member said, and I quote: "We must give enough attention to all Bills, no matter how insignificant they are." I hope that "insignificant" did not refer to any of my Bills. [Laughter.] That is the only amendment I'd like to put forward regarding what he had to say. Even though I'm sympathetic, none of my Bills are insignificant in any way.
I would like to assure the House that a great deal of time has been taken over a period of a year to ensure that we have as much consensus on this matter as possible, because it has been a very sensitive matter. This ensures that we can keep a balance between the interests and the concerns of the tenants and, at the same time, ensure that the market itself is not overly burdened with processes that we have put in place.
I'd also like to indicate to hon members the concerns that were raised by the hon members from KwaZulu-Natal, one of whom did, in fact, say any amendments that they might have provided, they would put in such a way that they do not, in any way, change the essential elements of the Bill. So whatever else they may have put in place, they did include a proviso that none of this would change the essential elements of the Bill.
Having said that, I would like to thank you very much for deliberating on this very significant - extremely significant - Bill, Mr Watson. I thank you for your time.
Debate concluded.