Your colleague just mentioned trust, restoring trust, making sure the systems works. We haven't forgotten about ethics. If somebody is there who looks after it, if you have an ethical problem, you can come to him for advice and for rulings, etc. It is an important part of the whole functioning of government: that people have trust in it and feel that if there are conflicts, the conflicts will be dealt with. If there's a vacancy and there's no commissioner, you have an office that can't act, because the act provides that only a commissioner can do it. That corrodes the trust, and that's why I thought, “Well, it has to be replaced.”
On September 18th, 2023. See this statement in context.