Acting Speaker, I just got a note which says that I am not pronouncing the school properly, it is not Phalama but Palama. I think the note probably came from the Deputy President. [Laughter.]
Acting Speaker, some of the responsibilities of Palama are to ensure: that the sector skills plan is in place; that the learning programmes are worked out; that workplace skills, plans and allocating grants are provided; that education and skills development programmes are monitored; and that learning programmes are providing for themselves.
We have been able to do this in conjunction with Palama because, as you know, Palama's responsibility was that of a service provider, outsourcing the work that would otherwise be done by the school of government to the various institutions of higher learning. What we are doing now is to restructure that and use PSETA as a conduit to ensure the accreditation of all those courses that we are currently working on to ensure that they are accredited with the SA Qualifications Authority, SAQA.
As we are in this transitional phase it will be very difficult to answer your question specifically, except that we are working with them to ensure that their role is now that of making sure that our qualifications standards are acceptable and accredited. Thank you.