Chair, let me start by thanking the Deputy Minister for going to such great pains to explain the whole setup, particularly in regard to magistrates and prosecutors. What I don't fully understand, or maybe I do and I don't know what the answer is, is that it sounds to me as if what is happening there is that it is the principle of borrowing from Paul to pay Peter or Peter to pay Paul.
The prosecutors, a large number of them, are migrating to the position of magistrates and yet we do sometimes read of backlogs in cases because of a shortage of even magistrates, if I have understood that correctly. If you block that advancement channel, where will you get the magistrates from to fill the positions that have been filled by those many prosecutors?