Thank you, hon Speaker. Hon President, in October 2009, Mr Yunus Carrim bemoaned the lack of co-ordination and cohesion in the different spheres of government. The Human Sciences Research Council, in its submission to the Budget Policy Statement, supported this position. Back in 2004, the then Department of Provincial and Local Government's indaba also raised the same issue of lack of co-ordination amongst the different spheres of government.
Recently, where there were problems of service delivery, the reports have identified some of these problems. In spite of all of this, there is no indication that this problem is subsiding. Is it lack of will on the part of the institutions or government to solve this problem? Is it lack of capacity, or is it because there is a problem in our institutional arrangement in the different spheres of government?