. That with 35% of its budget still remaining two months into the end of the financial year, the Committee is concerned that the Department will engage in fiscal dumping in order to ensure that its budget is spent. . The extent to which the plans of the Department are linked to the IDPs of the local municipalities, particularly those within which funded projects are based. . In respect of technical and extension services, the extent to which there is consultation and cooperation between the provincial Department and organised agriculture (for example, AgriSA in terms of their various commodity training chambers). . The National Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries invested a significant amount of funds into the Extension Recovery Plan - the impacts of which do not seem to be reflected within the Province. . That a new official to the provincial Department, not the HOD or CASP Manager, decided to respond to Committee questions on the presentations. Most of the responses on service delivery were vague.