Some of these departments include Basic Education, Higher Education, Water and Sanitation, Human Settlements, Energy, Correctional Services, Transport, National Treasury, State Security Agency and the South African Police Service, Saps.
With our economy having contracted for the second time this year, the role of government in playing a countercyclical role to help reverse the stresses of the economy has never been more important. It is the view of the ACDP that departments which fail to spend budgets allocated, particularly capital budgets, are working against economic growth and inadvertently become enemies of the poor. Does the Minister agree with this particular statement that departments which fail to spend their budgets are inadvertently working against the poor? I thank you.