Deputy Speaker, the African Transformation Movement supports the Report.
After scrutinising the department's report, we said to ourselves, R230 million is too little for the core function of this department, because this department
deals with vulnerable groups - women, youth and people with disabilities.
So, what can R230 million do for that department?
Out of R230 million, it has to transfer R80,7 million to the Commission for Gender Equality. That means the department is left with only R149,5 million. That lacks seriousness for those that really are supposed to make the point that at least there is increment allocation to this critical department.
However, we are saying, we are a little bit frustrated by the audit outcomes of this department because, if you have a budget of R230 million, we are expecting a clean audit, not a qualified audit opinion. So we are encouraging the audit committees and the risk committees of that department to come closer to that department.
Over and above the underspending of R149 million, it is unacceptable. Having R149 million, having this critical department and there is underspending and underspending
is around the core function of this department, that is Program 2 ...
And again, the Auditor-General's findings of this department of irregular and fruitless expenditure in an amount of R4 million is unacceptable. Fruitless and wasteful expenditure of R334 000 is unacceptable. A total of R30 million unauthorised expenditure from previous years ...
So, we are saying we support the report. Thank you. [Time expired.]
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