Deputy Speaker, I would like to start by thanking the Minister for bringing this to us in the House. We think it's a very good thing that he presents it here. And I would like to say to him that we will gladly engage in the process. We are pleased too that he is doing a Green Paper too before a White Paper. There are departments that leap from nowhere to a White Paper, leaving no space for public participation. So, thank you for that.
But I would like to make two comments that are pertinent, I hope, to this discussion. The first is that you are going to have to strike a balance between voluntarism and commandism in the way you balance the extent of regulation. The tendency at the moment I suspect in government is to leap on the side of a more regulatory framework, which may or may not be appropriate, because if we are talking about co-operative governance, we need people to co-operate and forcing people to co-operate is a bit of an oxymoron. You may as well do away with the word co-operative if you are telling them what to do. So that is the first caution.
The second one - and this is nine seconds, and I speak ... [Inaudible.] I don't know which one it is. Sorry, Chair, on my little thing there, the computer, it said I had two minutes. Here it says I have 10 seconds.