No, I don't take offence. I just want it to be substantive instead of just style over substance. The Department of Trade and Industry goes and hands out three fishing boats to co-operatives and thinks that's going to solve the problems of small-scale fishing in South Africa. [Interjections.] It's nothing. It's an empty promise; that's all it is. [Interjections.]
Let's consider the failures here, Minister. Let's consider the failures. You failed to bring this Bill to the House on time. You have failed to find the budget to support this Bill, and you have forced the fishermen and women to join co-operatives that they don't need and don't necessarily want. That's the truth. [Interjections.]
You call yourself a "vriend van die armes," [friend of the poor] hon Minister. That's what you said in your speech. Well, as the hon Bhanga said, nothing could possibly be further from the truth. The truth is that there is only one person in this Parliament who fights for the rights of fishermen. There is only one person in that committee whom fights for the rights of fishermen, other than the hon member from the ANC who you've now taken out of the committee, and that is the hon Van Dalen. [Interjections.]