Speaker, the ID is forced to once again vote against the Public Enterprises Budget Vote. This is in no way to besmirch the new Minister, but rather a protest vote against the continued squandering of valuable taxpayers' money on certain nonperforming state-owned enterprises, such as the PBMR. In this new era of constrained government spending, the ID would far rather see this money being directed to urgent priorities, such as the extension of the child support grant and our failing public health care system.
The ID also maintains that the new built programme of Eskom must be put up for review, so as to ensure that we achieve maximum social benefit for the R1,3 trillion they intend to spend over the next 25 years. I thank you.