Through you Mr Speaker, Mr President your platitudes are not quite responsive to my question. My question is not about establishing the functions - we have all these reports of those functions; it is about locating them in a manner and in a place where they can be carried out more efficiently and more effectively.
We have a problem, we have run out of money, and either we get more money from taxes or we need to cut down on spending. We don't want to cut down on spending where it matters - in education, health and welfare. We need to cut on spending where it does not matter. Mr President, do you think that there is no reason for that?
It doesn't take three years of presidential review to have some, and not all, state-owned enterprises in a special department while all the others are where they belong. That's the legacy of apartheid, to have them in a special department rather than in a line function where they belong. Eskom should be with the Department of Energy, Transnet with the Department of Transport, and so on and so forth. It's a waste of departments, don't you realise, Mr President?
Don't you realise that the issue of women, children and people with disabilities is not about questioning the function but making it effective? Give a mandate to each and every department to carry out that function rather than having a ghetto department, which has no executive authority, cannot execute any law, doesn't do anything for the women, children and people with disabilities, and only grandstands by flying around the world, spending money that we need. And the same applies to state security. [Time expired.] We don't need a Cabinet Minister ... [Interjections.]