Thank you, Chair. I hope I get injury time and you yellow-card those two hon members!
What is required is an indication of what happens after it is detected that an official or officials have not been performing.
Yesterday, the hon President was in the Eastern Cape, and so were you, and you looked very nice and we heard you on TV. We heard the President berating certain teachers. What will happen to those teachers? Next year you will find that that ordinary teacher has been promoted to the post of principal somewhere. You find a director-general of one department that he or she has messed up being promoted to another department. What we need to do is ensure that we focus on what happens after we find that these people are not fulfilling their responsibilities.
It is also a matter of concern - but not for the Minister - that Parliament has not, as yet, put an oversight committee in place. It is quite ironic that this department is called Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, and yet there is no parliamentary committee to monitor and evaluate the department.
On 20 April last year the Speaker of Parliament and the Chair of Chairs, who was sitting here earlier, wrote to all of us. They wanted a multiparty committee to be put in place to look at an oversight committee over the Presidency. A year has gone by and nothing has happened. Parliament is failing in its duty to ensure that we hon members have oversight over all departments and all committees.
We are a bit concerned that there is a lack of resources for this department, because the hon Minister needs resources. Through the Chair, you need manpower, hon Minister. If you want to monitor, you need manpower, and we hope that Treasury is able to ensure that more funds are provided to this department.
In conclusion and through the Chair, I agree with you, hon Minister, that good intentions are not enough. We need to take action, drastic action, against people who think that working for the state is like having a holiday. They come to work, go to sleep, and that is the end of the day for them.
We will support this Budget Vote. Thank you.