Deputy Speaker, thank you for pointing out the error. The department's main task is to conduct oversight over the executive to ensure effective, efficient, developmental and professional service. This can be successfully achieved through a well committed governmental workforce in all departments.
The education of workers on the importance of public service would further promote the objective of the department, by extension the government.
Once we have a public service that is built with educated and skilled people, the effectiveness of programmes and services would be one that truly reflects a government of the people and for the people.
The department should monitor the performance of other government departments financially and governance
performances in order to provide suggestions and appropriate corrective measures where needed. This speaks to the need for planning, monitoring and evaluation which is a task of this department.
The department's own payment of suppliers within seven days either than the prescribed 30 days has been commended by the report in terms of planning, monitoring and evaluation. However, poor performance by this department and its entities is still a challenge for this department.
Lack of commitment from employees and corruption, which acts as a cancer that is eating our government, are all factors that must simply be rooted out. Irregular expenditure thus becomes a major concern where issues of corruption as well as irregular expenditure are often associated with corruption and maladministration.
The government department performed well yet skilled people vacancies are required. The main cause of this is that political appointments, which are cadre deployment,
are made and they lead to poor services to the citizens of this country.
This is one of the reasons why the IFP has constantly been calling for the establishment of a new Chapter 9 institution and the integrity commission to deal with grand corruption and administration. But all having been said, the IFP supports the report. Thank you. [Time expired.]