The Minister for the Public Service and Administration offers to take up your question, hon Singh. I think the commentary in Chapter 14 of the Plan, which deals with the capable developmental state, is in fact a full commentary in support of the observation by the Planning Commission that indeed the Public Service does not meet the highest standards of professionalism for a whole range of reasons, which are articulated. What is very important is that we take the steps articulated, including making the Public Service a career of choice. Therefore, we must attract young people fresh out of university and ensure that there is a lot of competition for jobs in the Public Service.
We must also embark on continuous upgrading of skills, which is where institutions like Palama - am I pronouncing that correctly? - come in to ensure that it is not just doing induction but the skills development of public servants has to be an ongoing issue. We can then design the systems to ensure that we can construct an adequate interface between the administration and politics, because politics will always be part of government. As the plan says, we must ensure that interface operates optimally. There are proposals about strengthening the Public Service Commission, PSC, also and a proposal that needs to be tested about creating a new administrative head in the Public Service. There is a lot of focus on how we reconstruct the Public Service to ensure high levels of accountability and also - the plan does not deal with it but also requires - a jacking-up of Parliament in the way in which we all interact and hold each other accountable to ensure that democracy benefits from the fact that more of us are deeply committed to ensuring that the focus is measured in the improvement in the quality of life of all our people.