Deputy Speaker, through you to the Minister, if you look at your budget, a quarter of your total budget - in terms of the economic classification - is transfers to nonprofit institutions, which have been slashed by some 65%. If you go into the programmes, you will see that the Research, Development and Innovation programme has had massive cuts - space science, hydrogen and energy, biotechnology and health, and so on that have been slashed.
My questions to you are: Why are there these cuts? Secondly, as a country we are already underspending on R&D, so if government is cutting back its contribution to R&D, what is that doing for our national plan to reach a certain target? Thirdly, you have a performance agreement with the President about maintaining certain targets, which has just been increased to 1,5%. What does this do for your performance agreement? Thank you.