As I have said at the point of accepting the role of leading this House, to which I will remain indebted to you and my political organisation, the ANC, I quote: "The time for speeches and empty promises is over." I went further to say:
It is evident that as Parliament, we have made good policies and passed good laws in the past 25 years of democracy. What we have not done however as a legislative sector, have been to ensure the systematic implementation of these laws and policies to the benefit of our people.
Hon Deputy Chairperson, we must without the slightest prevarication be happy with what we have achieved in the period of just over six months in office as indicated by other speakers. It is a solid foundation for the work we must do in the pursuit of fundamental change. We have set up structures to undertake the work of this House in pursuit of its constitutional mandate. We have elected leadership to lead these structures and we commend them for their work.
We have been on the ground to conduct oversight and have asked as many and specific questions to ensure accountability by the executive. Overall, we are indeed on cost in carrying our