Deputy Speaker, first of all, the IFP supports the budget. However, the Department of Public Works, the custodian and the manager of the state's immovable assets, has failed again and again in its mandate. Systematic departmental flaws remain unresolved year after year and the immovable asset register must be brought up to date.
How can the department not know the extent of its assets here and abroad, because that would be one of its basic functions? What is the department doing to collect the money owed to it by the other client departments? What extent of the department's own land is not being used? How many schools have been built since 1994 by the Department of Public Works? What areas of land does the government own that are currently available for human settlement? How many land parcels have been registered? How many land parcels are owned by foreigners? Do we have functioning asset registers in other countries?
These are some of the questions that have to be answered by the department if we want to start implementing the turnaround strategy and be a successful department with a clean audit. I thank you.