For an institution at that level not to be able to maintain records, basic records, in terms of the Public Finance Management Act, can we say that is success? For an institution at that level not to be able to maintain assets or leave registers, can we say there is capacity in that institution? Yet the hon member said he is uncomfortable about the demise of the so-called Scorpions.
I can give an account of many things in the litany of errors that were found with regard to the Scorpions. But then I will conclude by asking, after reading this report of the Auditor-General, how can any institution that does not succeed in maintaining basic records and in managing the basics of its office and members then succeed in fighting high-level crime? Will it succeed? Because at one stage it didn't know how many members it had on its payroll. Yet a member is saying he is uncomfortable about this.
We table these Bills before this House for it to do the honourable thing and to pass them so that we can have a real, meaningful crime-fighting mechanism in the country. I thank you. [Applause.]