Now, instead of getting behind a genuinely decent and sensible policy proposal ... I want to answer your question so I am going to rush ... we have been presented with a half-baked Youth Employment Accord that makes vague and oblique reference to incentives. It is one word in the entire document, without any detail or a timeline. The Minister was quick to point out that the accord makes way for private-sector measures ... [Interjections.] ... as long as they are "approved by all constituencies".
Allow me to ask the Minister whether, in his mind, more than three years after announcing this subsidy and 440 000 jobs lost, the signing of the youth accord now means that he has got sufficient consensus to implement it? Why was it not implemented the day after that accord was signed? If so, please tell us when it will be implemented.
Sir, I will take your question now. [Laughter.]
A HON MEMBER: Time's up!