Hon Speaker, let me first thank the Deputy President for the response. If we analyse the outstanding questions, I just want to raise a concern with regard to concurrent functions. It is not true that the Minister of Basic Education and the Minister of Health can actually argue that some of the functions are provincial functions. They are concurrent functions and, therefore, they ultimately hold the responsibility for those portfolios.
Can I just say that out of the total number of written questions submitted this year, 18% have so far not been answered. Out of the 3 684 questions that were submitted by all parties, 659 are still outstanding as we are gathered here today. What is more significant is that if you analyse questions not responded to by the executive, you will see that the ANC has only 2% outstanding questions, whereas the opposition parties have a lot more. In our case, we in Cope have 23% of the outstanding questions that have not been responded to, and 66% belong to the DA and other parties.
That gives the impression that the executive does not want to be accountable to a specific component of the National Assembly. I trust that that is not true. Will the Deputy President give an undertaking that he will again stress ...