Hon Chair, hon Minister Ms Dipuo Peters, hon chairperson Mr Sisa Njikelana, hon Members of Parliament that are present, invited guests and stakeholders, I greet you.
Mr Greyling, I think all that you have said is addressed in the Integrated Resource Plan. You are also not correct in saying that we are nowhere near energy efficiency. We actually have the 49M campaign, which is headed by the Deputy President.
Having said that, let me say that the budget presented by the hon Minister of Energy, in her speech to this House today, is in tune with our ambition to be part of the larger clean revolution, aimed at an economy which balances our country's development needs with a cleaner, smarter and more prosperous future.
It also seeks to create the necessary conditions, in the form of a secure and sustainable supply of energy, upon which to pursue our strategic objective of universal access, and which can underpin the massive infrastructure programme that our President so eloquently outlined in the state of the nation address. Therefore, this budget is about how best to leverage our energy resources to achieve our key strategic goal as an ANC government of placing our economy on a new job creation and more equitable growth path, in line with our 52nd ... [Interjections.]