Thank you, hon Chair. Maybe the hon members must understand what our mandate is. If we talk about improvement, everything I have talked about is within the mandate of the Department of Home Affairs, and is within the turnaround strategy. I have not moved away from the question.
Secondly, I would like to say, since the hon Oriani-Ambrosini was talking about the microchip, we now have state-of-the-art passports, which you get in a very short time. I don't know whether any of you have applied for a passport recently. The state-of-the-art passport has a microchip, hon Oriani-Ambrosini, and it has been turned around. Also, if you have lost your ID, you can get a temporary ID on the spot. We can scan your finger, and we can verify that you are on our population register, and we can give you an ID.
Hon members, let me also take this opportunity to say that we have started, and are going to accelerate, the registration of children at birth. I hope hon members, during the recess, that you will take the opportunity to encourage their constituents to register their children. We also want everybody who doesn't have a birth certificate to have it within a year. So in your constituencies, hon members, make sure there is no single person who doesn't have a birth registration certificate. [Interjections.] At the end of one year, we are going to do away with late registration. So they must do it now.
Also, all people in your constituency must have an ID, because, as politicians here, we are going to do away with the ID campaign during elections ... [Interjections.]