far reaching and we believe it could well be seriously detrimental to this country’s economic growth we question the procedure followed in bulldozing this bill through parliament honourable minister no consultation was undertaken by the department one week’s notice was given by parliament of the deadline for public submissions immediately prior to committee deliberations on the bill the minister held a press conference and made statements such as we are going to make all these changes and we are not going to change this the minister then made the same speech to the portfolio committee debate was seriously stifled by the minister having issued direct instructions on what would not be changed