Speaker, in welcoming the response from the Deputy President, we want to ask, in light of the well-published negative impact of private companies' retrenchments on the objective of creating new jobs, what would the Presidency say on the utilisation and impact of the training lay-off scheme as introduced during the global economic crisis?
Secondly, it is also noticeable that the private sector is reluctant to substantially invest in new infrastructure programmes unless government provides financial backing and guarantees. How does the Presidency plan to deal with this objective reality, given the New Growth Path's findings that most jobs would need to come from the private sector if we are to create considerable jobs in the country? Thank you.