House Chair, the ACDP supports this motion and again as the other speakers has indicated; it must be read with the Political Party Funding Act that has been signed into law; that is not yet not operational. Why is that? It is because of outstanding regulations. Now, there is a whole question as to why that Act is not applied because we've passed it; it's signed into law but the IEC is not implementing it correctly. That is a separate issue.
I fully agree with the sentiment expressed by other speakers about the need for the disclosure of party funding and that is why we supported the Political Party Funding Act. What we've got here is interesting because it is the access to that information. We as the ACDP, have raised it continually, I
have also raised my concerns in the Justice Committee that the Constitutional Court strikes down pieces of legislation that are passed by this Parliament.
The executive then delays in bringing their amendments, and then we are sitting at the last minute, the National Assembly and the NCOP, to effect those changes. Recently, in the Justice Committee we raised that again and thankfully this now is a Committee Bill that is brought by the committee. Therefore, I want to commend the chairperson for that initiative because we need in future, we need to ensure that it happens.
The Constitutional Court instructs Parliament to amend the legislation when it strikes it down. We cannot wait to the last minute. There's already more than a year passed since this legislation has been passed. So we need to be vigilant and in future pass more of these Committee Bills when the Constitutional Court strikes down our legislation. The ACDP as I have indicated will support this motion. I thank you.
Question put.
Agreed to.
Business Concluded.
The House adjourned at 17:00. -----------------------