Thank you, hon member. Investigating the use of LPG will be discussed in a summit that we will hold for the first time in September but we will extensively discuss this matter next year before the end of this financial year. We will come back to Parliament to give a report on what we have learnt and where that puts us. In reality, poor people find it difficult to use LPG because of its cost.
As I said, we do not have gas in South Africa and we have, therefore, to get it from other countries. We buy it from other countries and we always clash with Mr Trevor Manuel because that increases the balance of payments because we have to use a lot of money to buy things such as gas from overseas countries.
This in the end leaves me as a buyer having to compensate for that. In truth, when poor people who use gas compare it with paraffin, they choose paraffin even though it is dangerous because it is what they can afford with the little money they have. The cost of LPG will be one of the items we will seriously discuss in order that we can assist poor people to afford to buy gas.]