Chairperson and hon members, section 27(4) of the National Environmental Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, Act 24 of 2008 allows the Minister to request for the ratification of Parliament, and both the portfolio committee and the select committee. Therefore, the Minister requests for the exclusion of port areas from coastal public property in terms of this section. The Select Committee on Land and Environmental Affairs has ratified this request and puts it before this House for agreement. [Applause.]
Debate concluded.
Question put: That the request of the Minister be ratified.
IN FAVOUR: Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West, Western Cape.
ABSTAIN: Eastern Cape, Free State.
Request accordingly ratified in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.
Hon members, today is our last sitting before the elections. Therefore, I will now allow an opportunity for farewell speeches because some of us will come back and some of us won't. But I think it will be a blessing if all of us can come back.