Madam Speaker, thank you to the Deputy President for the answer. I am very glad about the huge emphasis on your response that you have placed on the role of the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs in your interministerial committee and just how integral that department is to addressing many of these service delivery challenges. I thank you for reinforcing that. But then it begs a question, Deputy President, because one of the key frustrations for communities when it comes to service delivery is the lack of answers that they get from departments when it comes to their queries and it often spills over into violence.
The problem we have is that the Minister in charge of Cogta, who is an integral part of your committee as you have highlighted here today, is not answering questions from Members of Parliament. Almost half of the questions that have been put by hon members of this House relating to municipal service delivery problems have come back
with a one line response saying "The department doesn't have this information, and if we get it we will provide it to you."
The same Minister today missed a hearing with Standing Committee on Public Accounts to discuss the breakdown between Eskom and municipalities. I ask you Deputy President, as a leader of government business and the head of the interministerial committee, what are you going to do to ensure that this Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs starts to do her job as it relates to Parliament and with the municipalities? [Applause.]