Hon Speaker of the House, you referred to the legislative authority of Parliament and the important role that we should play in terms of scrutinizing and overseeing executive action. And then you said also during your speech today that basically we will keep the executive to account and there must be consequences, I accept that and I agree with that. [Interjections.]
But, hon Speaker, we have failed in the instance of section 55(2)(a) of the Constitution. Section 55(2)(a) of the Constitution says, the National Assembly must provide for mechanisms (a) to ensure that all executive organs of the state in the national sphere of government are accountable to it and (b) to maintain oversight of the executive on national and the national authority.
The point I'm trying to make is this, you referred in your speech that we should scrutinize and do oversight of each and every portfolio of the executive as well as state-owned enterprises, SOEs. But what about the Office of the President ma'am? It's time that we also create a mechanism in which we do oversight of the President and the President's Office. And I think we should seriously do that, I think the Constitution expects that from us, we should do that.
But hon Speaker, when you say there must be consequences, then I'm saying there must not only be consequences for the executive, there must also be consequences for Members of Parliament. It cannot only be the executive. If members
Parliament misbehave, and they do, from time to time some of them do, because some of them in this House clearly stated before they came to Parliament in 2014 and it was said again this afternoon that they want to bring the revolution to Parliament. Now, this is the place to debate and if you cannot win the argument with better arguments you don't win the argument by trying to intimidate people. That's not called debate, that's not called Parliament.
Hon Speaker, last week when we had the incident with the Minister of Public Enterprises, those were ejected from the House. But what did they do? They just went down the stairs to another meeting of Parliament and they joined that and they participated in those debates. That is not consequences, that is not acceptable, it cannot be done. If members are ejected from the House they should be ejected from the premises of Parliament.
At this stage it's quite clear that there are no consequences that some members take seriously. So, I would suggest that we think about something else. Let's start to deduct from certain
people's salaries. [Interjections.] Let's deduct from certain people's salaries. If they misbehave we deduct from their salaries until they cannot pay their Gucci accounts and they cannot pay their expensive German vehicles, and they cannot pay all those things they buy [Interjections.] [Applause.]