Mr Speaker, the provision of adequate health services to the people of our country should be a sine qua non. It is therefore quite disturbing that, while the Department of Health transferred R14 billion in conditional grants to provinces in the 2008-09 financial year especially for the construction and renovation of hospitals, we have discovered that much of this money was not spent and that there was inadequate control and monitoring of the expenditure of the funds.
We would like to call upon the Minister of Health and the Cabinet to note that health services should be a priority and that, while this country has the money, we discover it was not adequately spent by those at the lower levels of government. I thank you. [Applause.]