It is possible that the hon Chief Whip of the largest opposition party does not understand the distinction between member and party. I referred to a member joining the party to which he belongs. [Applause.] [Laughter.] But we understand his difficulty.
I do not recall from the committee meeting that discussed the arms deal that there was any reference to a politician by the persons that were making statements in that committee meeting. There is, of course, always an attempt to try to hang this on the ANC. Perhaps the hon member who made the statement on behalf of Cope - since she was a member of the party at the time - may know more than some of us, but there is no member of the ANC that is a beneficiary of this particular deal. Therefore we do not understand why there is a continual attempt to keep this going.
We also negotiated in absolute good faith during the negotiations on salaries. We made the best offer that government is able to make in terms of the resources available to it and we hope that once the 21 days' suspension is over, we will have signature to what we think is a very good offer for public servants and workers in the Public Service domain. If the hon member of Cope disagrees that this is a good offer, perhaps he's in the wrong place and should be assisting the workers and government to secure something even better. Thank you.