Comrade Deputy Speaker, comrades, friends, I want to say something that I think is unprecedented in the history of this House. I hope it will be recorded. I have been allocated five minutes, and I am going to use only a minute. So can we start by applauding me? [Interjections.] If you do not applaud, I am going to speak for the full five minutes. [Applause.]
I want to say, firstly, thank you to everybody who participated in processing this Bill, which is a fast-tracked Bill. In particular of course I want to thank Peter Hendrickse, especially as he praised me so much. Those are the words, by the way, that I wrote, of his speech. He wrote a longer speech for me to present today on how good he has been, but unfortunately I left the speech upstairs in my room, Peter! All I can say is that Peter Hendrickse ...