Chairperson, the Budget Vote as presented and debated, together with its strategic plan over the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, period, bears testimony to the resolve of the department to deal with eradicating the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and underdevelopment through the various programmes and projects contained in the Vote and the strategic plan. This Budget Vote is about ensuring that our people are food secure, that we win the war against deforestation, and that our people in many coastal areas enjoy the benefits of living along the seaside. [Interjections.]
This Vote is also about ensuring that the policies and laws that we have enacted are sufficient to effect the necessary transformative agenda we are committed towards, and the resources allocated by the Budget Vote are spent with due regard to policy priorities. For the opposition, their declaration is all about form and no content and therefore does not take us forward. The ANC supports the Budget Vote. Thank you. [Applause.] [Interjections.]
Question put.