Chair, hon Minister, given your commitment to keep the department and its entities out of courts and focusing on its key mandate to support vulnerable members of our society, what is the hon Minister doing to ensure that the thousands of children who could be placed on foster care are given the dignity of growing up in a homely environment and connect to their foster parents so that there are no backlogs to place these children? Thank you. [Applause.]
Chairperson, with regards to the first question to the hon member of the FF-Plus, it is important for us to work very closely with the provinces in particular as you might be aware that we have what we call a Minmec, which is a ministerial meeting between the provinces as well as the Minister, including meetings of the officials.
Here is where the challenge comes sometimes: We, as political people, give directives as to what we think