Speaker, I am now responding to the same issue, but from a Public Works' perspective, on behalf of the Minister of Public Works, as his Deputy, and not the Deputy of someone else who might just have spoken.
Hon Watson, you provoked tremendous nostalgia on this side of the House for previous Chief Whips of the DA and Deputy Chief Whips. Douglas Gibson, Ian Davidson, and Mike Ellis were all sensible and critical of us, but they understood Parliament and what it was about. [Applause.] They didn't plumb the depths and discredit Parliament by treating it like a cheap playhouse. They were not ham-fisted and clumsy. You quoted the Chief whip of the ANC saying that the purpose of public debates in Parliament is to enlighten the public. I would suggest that enlightenment is not a strong suit of yours and particularly of the party that you are currently leading here in Parliament.
As the executive and Parliament, we certainly and absolutely owe the public explanations for how public money is spent. If money is misspent, we also owe explanations of how it was misspent and why it was misspent. [Interjections.]