Deputy Speaker, the ANC will definitely support this Budget Vote. It is important to inform the House that the Minister of Police spent 94% of the Ministry's budget during the 2008-09 financial year.
About 94% is well within the acceptable standards of budget spending. What is true though is that the hon Kohler-Barnard simply dislikes the Minister as a person. [Applause.]
This dislike is compounded by the fact that the Minister's department is investigating irregularities in the ICT unit of SAPS. Its director, passionately liked by hon Kohler-Barnard, is being investigated for irregularities and her husband, who was a deputy director, reporting to the wife, was removed. [Interjections.] [Applause.]
While this could have been characterised as nepotism, including corruption, it did not earn the Minister appreciation, but instead he was attacked. The investigation by international experts of the forensic science laboratory will definitely exacerbate the attacks on the hon Minister, because, again, it is likely to unearth many untold stories about some who are liked by the hon member.
The fact-finding investigations on who is providing services in SAPS, which the Minister is initiating, will earn him other names because it will most likely unearth other untold stories by the member. I thank you. [Applause.]