Hon Deputy Speaker, this BRR report is a culmination of a series of meetings which interrogated the annual reports of the department of public works and infrastructure, PMTE, other entities as well the reports of the auditor general for the 2018-19 financial year.
The ACDP notes that it is the responsibility of the members of public works and infrastructure report portfolio committee to ensure that this report provides an assessment of the department's service delivery performance and an assessment on the effectiveness and efficiency of the department's use as well as the forward allocation of available resources.
It must be pointed out that the final appropriation for the 2018-19 financial year was some R7,48 billion with actual expenditure of some R7,45 billion. The ACDP notes with concern that the department received its fourth consecutive unqualified audit opinion with emphasis on additional matters. One of the serious concerns of the auditor general was on programme three pertaining to expanded public works programme where supporting evidence provided did not agree with the reported achievement of some 997 286 work opportunities as reported in the expanded public works programme.
Additionally, the auditor general could not determine whether the percentage of the EPWP participation of designated groups, of 68% women and 43% youth and 1%
people with disabilities as reported on the EPWP by public bodies required adjustments.
The ACDP and I believe other political parties raised serious concerns about IDT. It needs to go. The ACDP believes that it is now time to stop the talk fully blustering around fraud, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure and corruption. It is now time to take action. The ACDP supports this report.