Mine is just a comment because the department is still in the process of being established. What is very important in the process of establishing the department is to look at what other departments are doing about disabled people - look at other departments except for the one that is being established, especially those whose employees get injured at work like in the Police Force and in many others.
The department can also do us a big favour in looking at people who have been injured in the mines, especially those from areas in Transkei who find themselves in very difficult situations today because there are no hospitals to assist them in terms of spinal cord injuries. The workmen's compensation is nowhere to be found to assist these people. Can the department also link with the workmen's compensation in the process of establishing itself and also link with hospitals that assist people with disabilities, especially those with spinal cord injuries, so that they can be assisted in the process? It is so frustrating to find that government has put away money all over to assist these people, but then it becomes very difficult for them to access it.
I will write other comments to the Minister so that they can be of assistance to them in establishing the department. But the sooner the department is on its feet, the better. Thank you. [Interjections.] [Time expired.]