Chairperson, I would like to thank the members. In fact, this is supposed to be a simple and straight-forward Bill, because it goes to the heart of the fight against crime.
As other members have said - hon George spoke about it - the training for specialisation will be done to ensure that we up our game, particularly in this area.
The breakthrough, particularly against sexual offences, as hon Ndlovu has said, is very noble. The modernisation in the fight against crime, as has been said by hon Swart; the issues of women benefiting, but generally people who are victims of violent crimes; and the strengthening of the hand of the SAPS, as hon Schneemann has said, are the basic things we need to do.
The hon Kohler-Barnard from the DA is confusing the disciplines within forensics involving DNA. She takes the DNA and drug analyses and makes it one thing, then after multiplying it she says there is a huge backlog.
We have to take her through the ABC. The backlog was 0,06% on DNA analysis in 2011-12; 0% on trichology; and 0,02% on drugs. Now, by lumping everything together ... [Interjections.]