As a result of the self-assured, decisive manner in which the Department and the Minister have come through these crises, I have the utmost confidence in his ability to shepherd the agricultural industry through the latest challenge it faces, the proposals by Commissioner Fischler. It is a difficult job for the Minister and Department and it would be good to see cohesion in the sector and across the political divide. I will not speak for the agriculture sector but I expected a greater level of co-operation tonight than the political in-fighting and mud-slinging at Ministers over what they have and have not done.