Deputy Speaker, let me start by confirming the importance we assign to dealing with the crisis of youth employment or unemployment. If you look at the data, it is quite revealing. More than half of our young people are without jobs, more than three quarters of the unemployed, are young people. This is a crisis that we have to deal with.
In government's view, it will require a multiplicity of interventions. We'll have to do many things and we'll have to do them smartly to address the issues of unemployment. We are now busy putting together a comprehensive response to youth employment, which will include targeted measures for companies. It will also include measures in the Public Service through using public works programmes, more aggressively targeted at young people.
In the growth path, we have identified sectors of the economy where, in fact, young people can and ought to be employed in large numbers. Government is looking at all those options, putting them together in a coherent package and will announce them as soon as the work is concluded. Thank you.