Thank you, Deputy Speaker. Minister, if one looks at the annual report for 2006-07, the administration staff complement was 7 433; in 2007-08, it was 6 593; and 2008-09, it was more or less 6 630. The question that I would like to ask the Minister is: Does the department have the right number of properly trained staff, in the right places, doing the right thing?
My own view is that 6 000 people at head office or 6 000 office-based staff is a bit too much and top heavy. I think that we should be looking at redeploying some of those office-based staff to working in the centres. I would be interested in your views on that, Madam Minister. Thank you very much.