It is even less, now that you have reminded me! [Laughter.] We need to carry that commitment to excellence in all the other committees. Unfortunately, there is a dumbing down of standards, which has a disastrous effect on our human capital goals, especially at the core of the science, engineering and technology, or SET, fields.
We must recognise the capacity of this department to express leadership in respect of other departments. When other line functions of government tend to dumb things down and bring everything down to the lowest common denominator, I wish that this department would exercise a stronger role of leadership and play a more assertive role with a louder voice, saying that a national disaster is looming. The IFP supports the Minister and the budget for her department. [Time expired.] [Applause.]