Thank you very much, hon Speaker. Hon Maynier, as I have stated, this policy was duly adopted by Cabinet in March 2007, basically reaffirming policy which obtained as far back as 1993.
The question that you are now putting, on the comments made by the spokesperson for the Presidency, is irrelevant to the facts. [Laughter.] This is because the reality is that you are saying that if Mr Mac Maharaj was uncited and/or was asked a question which elicited the response he gave, that affects the basis of the authority for providing services to the Deputy President. I'm saying to you here and now, it doesn't. It is irrelevant in the sense that he may have been uncited, or whatever, but we can't go into that for now. Thank you. [Applause.]