Thank you, hon Deputy Speaker. Minister, the Presidency's core responsibility is the implementation of government's strategic agenda through planning, co-ordination, oversight and support. It is deeply ironic that the body tasked with driving government's strategic objectives has failed, as per the Auditor-General, to develop a coherent strategic plan of its own. Your explanation of a strategic plan straddling one year to the next displays a serious paucity of ideas about what you need to do. It also exposes fundamental deficiencies in government's most powerful department, and highlights a need for greater oversight of the Presidency.
The Presidency should be setting an example for the rest of government. However, despite the Presidency's alleged numerous initiatives to improve accountability and oversight of government, it has not applied the same measures to itself.
My question to you, hon Minister, is this: What steps are being taken to ensure that the Presidency is held to account and is subject to the same degree of oversight as all the other government departments? How far has the proposal tabled by the DA to establish a Presidency portfolio oversight committee progressed?