Thank you, Deputy Speaker. No, hon member, I do not think that there is duplication. Small business is so fundamental that there are a number of different departments in government that have specific mandates in regard to them. It is not only the DTI that is doing important, in fact critical, work on small business development, but also the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Department of Science and Technology on the technology side, and a number of other departments.
We are committed to co-ordination. We have distinct roles, but it is bringing these roles together, co-ordinating them, and hooking them up that are important. Let me give you a small example.
The Department of Economic Development is responsible for industrial funding, so through the Small Enterprise Finance Agency, Sefa, it needs to ensure that funding is available to smaller businesses with good ideas and market opportunities. However, it works in partnership with the DTI, which is responsible for the incubation programmes, and for the technical support, in order to be able to ensure that this works well.
The DTI has the Small Enterprise Development Agency, Seda, as a board that reports to it. We have appointed one of the Seda people on the board of the financing agencies so that we have cross-directorship. In that way we are helping to foster greater co-ordination between the different responsibilities of government. I have spoken about the national sphere, but that cuts across all three spheres of government, bringing greater co- ordination, which is an important objective that we have set. Thank you very much.