Thank you very much, hon Deputy Minister. Given the fact that the Social Housing Regulatory Authority, SHRA, does not fully accommodate housing co-operatives, we have been in discussion with the department on this, and the department has agreed that they are really not fully accommodated. This is because their objectives and principles are not the same. The SHRA accommodates rental, which has to do with profit, and co- operatives have to do with ownership.
Given the fact that we have had discussions, I want to put this question to the Deputy Minister. Has the department recognised a dire need, or does the department agree with the House that there is a dire need, to develop a dedicated policy and legislation for the housing co-operatives? I ask that because even the response that the DTI is responsible for that is not convincing - the DTI is responsible for registration. We believe that the management and administration are supposed to be managed by the Department of Human Settlements. We can refer to the resolutions of the ANC conference of 2002, that the Department of Human Settlements was given a mandate to ensure that there was this policy. I thank you. [Time expired.]