Hon Speaker, thank you very much. The National Development Plan, NDP, was adopted by this House. It will now serve as a framework for the programmes of action of government departments.
Identified in the NDP is the matter of inequality that the OECD report has raised. We are well aware of the problems of inequality, poverty and unemployment. The NDP, the New Growth Path, and the Presidential Infrastructure Co-ordinating Commission are aimed at critically addressing the issues of unemployment and poverty because, once our people who are able-bodied are able to find work, their dignity will be restored and the inequality gap will be narrowed as they begin to earn an income. This is a problem that government is quite alive to. Thank you.