Chairperson, basically what the DA says, is nothing that the Minister himself has not said. The economy is challenged. The Minister is quite open about that, so there is nothing particularly new in what the DA is saying. What will be useful is a concrete proposal of what to do about these challenges.
With policy incoherence, we have repeatedly indicated that the NDP provides the framework for this government, for this five-year term, in fact up to 2030. It is complemented by the Ipap and by the New Growth Path. Given the magnitude, the scope and range of issues that the NDP covers, as well as other policy proposals that we deal with, it is inevitable that we find some differences here and there. However broad, there is a very clear framework within which government and the majority party are going to operate over the next period.
On the issue of National Treasury oversight, on that too the Minister is clear. The parliamentary committee is clear too. It is not just the responsibility of the executive, but also the responsibility of Parliament to exercise more effective oversight, and we should do so.
On corruption, the position of Chief Procurement Officer at the National Treasury has been established. It is something that is going to address that issue too, like we discussed in such comprehensive detail during our committee's Budget Review process.
Look at Treasury. Today the International Budgetary Partnership's Open Budget has indicated that for the past several years, South Africa's National Treasury, not the United States, not Sweden, not any established country, but South Africa led by the ANC, ranked first or second in the past five years. It is the only one in the top five that is a developing country. So here is something that the National Treasury should be proud of, and so should you, Mr David Ross. [Applause.]
On the EFF, for a new party, it is still surprising what you have to say. Hon Shivambu, you are saying the same things over and over again. Let's take the issue of base erosion. Apart from your antics, there is no substance in what you are saying. You know well, that these issues that you are raising - on profit taxation, on base erosion and so on - are being addressed.