Thank you, hon Speaker. Mr Deputy President, given the frivolous and wasteful expenditure of over R100 million by the National Youth Development Agency, NYDA, on a party for friends, despite the abject poverty of so many in our country, and given the fact that 47% of the budget within the Presidency is allocated to the NYDA - hopefully, some of this will be for job creation for women, youth and people with disabilities - when will a portfolio committee be established to oversee the Presidency and the NYDA in particular, as previously called for by the DA?
It is unacceptable that hundreds of millions of rands are given to an entity with no accountability whatsoever. What commitment can you give, Mr Deputy President, that this unacceptable situation will be rectified and that the NYDA will be held to account?