Thank you, Chairperson. Thank you for the question. The member is just rattling off numbers he does not understand. There are updates of these numbers, and I thought he had made himself au fait with them. Be that as it may, the rig which he is referring to is a product of a discussion between ourselves and the various provinces. We are as good as the provinces at spending the funds.
Secondly, our Minmec has taken a decision in that we have to address the issue of project management shortages. Another problem is logistical capacity. We have decided that your normal community-based companies should be given opportunities to implement the roll- out of this project in the rural areas. Unfortunately, those companies, being very small, cannot do the job. That is why we have taken a decision, which he knows very well, to invite the members of the private sector to join the Independent Development Trust, which itself was not doing that well, to roll out this project.
So we have plans that he well knows, and we have turnaround strategies that he understands. But the last thing, as Minister, I was going to do was to spend money by opening floodgates into a void. We would rather keep that money back, particularly towards the end of the financial year, instead of seeing that money being dumped all over the place. So, we are very careful about public funds, and I want him to make himself au fait with the decision that we have taken which has been communicated to the portfolio committee of which he is a member.
Vote No 33 - Rural Development and Land Reform - put.