Thank you very much, hon member. The National Treasury derives its fundamental powers from the Public Finance Management Act. Within that law, Treasury is enjoined to perform certain functions, leading the budget process, amongst other things, and making sure that public funds are being properly spent, and so on and so forth. In the process of doing that, more often than not, we pick up a number of weaknesses in the government system. To that extent, we have now created an institution called Gtech, which assists in the training programmes and sensitisation of government departments and so on. Gtech is an important instrument in our arsenal. But National Treasury is quite a large institution.
There is also what I call the internal police force - it is called the Specialised Audit Services. We are just kind of semiautonomous within Treasury. There are people that we sent to do forensic investigations where we think that things are going wrong. Our primary function is really not to arrest people, but to assist in capacity building and ensuring that we have a capable state - something which we forget from time to time.
The Treasury's approach is less of a hammer, first it is persuasion and when that doesn't work, then maybe the hammer can be used later to try and get things going. We have to be collegial in the way we work. As I said earlier, if one is not collegial, one is unlikely to achieve much in our society. So, National Treasury then performs those functions within the Public Finance Management Act but also within other laws - but the fundamental one is the Public Finance Management Act.