Through you hon Deputy Chairperson, hon member, the first step for any responsible organisation is to have its Employee Wellness Programme which seeks to address day-to-day challenges that the employees go through. The second one - oh my Goodness, I pray that you would stand with me on this one - we really need more money to change the infrastructure that we have because it is an old infrastructure, as you correctly put it.
But unfortunately, at times, budget is the one that constrains us from doing that which we're supposed to do. But nevertheless, as the policymakers together with the board, we have engaged the
unions to find out about the other measures can we introduce to make sure that all the things that are affecting the employees can be attended to. Therefore, it talks to reprioritisation of the budget about where must it go to? That is where it matters.
As I have said just now, the employees are busy engaging with us to reprioritise the services of Post Office. Therefore, as we will be presenting at the Department of Finance at the end of the month, there will be an indication of the areas that should be prioritised. As I have said, there's lot of Post Offices that have bad infrastructure.
But on top of that, with the addition to social grants, for example, we are still expected to provide quality service to them by looking into the dignity of the beneficiaries. These are some of the core business of Post Office. Our responsibility is to pay or make sure that our beneficiaries get access to what they are entitled to. The other issue are the added ones, which is what we are motivating for in terms of getting extra budget.
For now, I would request the hon members to stand with us as we are going to request more budgets from Parliament in order for us
to attend all the burning issues. Thank you, hon Deputy Chairperson.