All auditors who are going to audit government must be employed by Auditor- General on a full time basis and be paid decent salaries based on experience and must be provided with all resources to do the work. This is in line with the EFF government intention to build corruption free and capable state to deliver service to our people in time. While the Public Audit Excess Fee Bill may offer temporary relieve and remedy, the long term solution is building internal and external auditing capacity, to audit both the financial performance and performance information. I thank you Madam Chair.