I know. But the best is still to come. The work of the interim commission has resulted in our being able to announce now that we owe those soldiers between salary levels 2 to 12 back pay because the recommendation was that they would be paid from 1 July. How this will be done will be worked out with them.
Thirdly, the Occupation-specific dispensation has been granted to us by the commission, and this we are extremely grateful for and we will be giving this out with effect from 15 May.
Chairperson, I wish I could say more because we have accomplished more. All we ask from members here is: Please consider that the Defence Force is stretched beyond its capacity. The Defence Force has very meagre resources. We ask you for now to accept this budget while you work on ways in which we can improve this. I thank you most sincerely. [Applause.]