Hon Deputy Speaker, no! Parliament is not doing as well as the IFP thinks. [Interjections.] I said in my speech that Parliament has become dull and irrelevant and I stick to what I said. The fact of the matter is that the problem of Parliament is not that there are not enough funds. There are more than sufficient funds to run Parliament. It is not that we don't have sufficient and very well equipped officials in Parliament; we have the best. But Parliament is not doing what it is supposed to do, and the problem with this lies with the ruling party that is sitting over there. That is the reason why Parliament is not functioning well.
One of the functions of Parliament is to discuss issues of importance in this country. We can never find time to discuss those kinds of things. We discuss every irrelevant little thing but the true issues in South Africa are never discussed. One of the issues that we must discuss is why the Minister of Health is not in this House this afternoon. It could, perhaps, be something to do with yesterday's NEC meeting - I don't know. But the fact of the matter is that real issues are not discussed in this Parliament. So, we cannot support this Budget Vote until that is set right.