Speaker, we know the Minister to be conscientious, competent, efficient and extremely dedicated. We also know that the Minister is still new and will need to find out the full status of the department's operations and situation.
What we can tell the Minister is that the situation in regard to permanent residence and temporary residence is a disaster, and submit to her that by centralising the decision-making the problem will not be addressed.
The difficulty is that in the past 10 years a number of evaluative processes have been concentrated within the department. Those evaluations, during the administration of Minister Buthelezi, were taken out of the department and placed in the hands of chartered accountants and institutions outside Parliament. Parliament has done all it can to bring that power, that discretionary power, back within the administration, while at the same time disempowering and effectively outlawing an entire class of people out there who were helping the department to make correct and expeditious decisions - the immigration practitioners.
My question to the Minister is this. Should we not actually look at revising the policy and changing the procedures, making the procedures not simplified and not easier. They can be complex, but still simple. For instance, there is absolutely no reason to have the vetting of National Intelligence ...