Deputy Speaker, it is difficult to overstate just how bad the situation was at the commission when the committee went there. They were registering about 2 400 registrations in the first two months. With the Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office, Cipro, we were registering around 6 000. Nevertheless, we take the Minister's words as encouragement.
Minister, one of the main problems at the commission is the fact that of the 1 600 calls that the call centre receives every week, about 1 100 of them go unanswered. We were told that this is because they have a shortage of 30 call centre seats in their call centre, and we were told that they did not have space at the DTI campus to put in 30 more seats. My question is: Will you as Minister approve additional space on the campus for that call centre, or alternatively allow the commission to contract out some call centre capacity, perhaps down here to some of our call centres in the Western Cape? Thank you.