For the 2009-10 budget year, a total of R1,1 billion has not yet been committed owing to a complex transition in my department. These funds must flow urgently and be utilised for the purposes for which they were intended. We will, therefore, strengthen the capacity of the National Skills Fund to monitor and evaluate the impact of the disbursements made, and we will address the problem of underexpenditure that has historically dogged the fund. We cannot have money that is left unspent when our needs are so huge. We commit that we will spend this money, not by throwing money at the problems, but by systematically raising the participation, especially of our young people, in the education and training system.