Under Programme of Administration, an amount of R 1, 110 million was rolled over due to many vacancies not being filled by the Department. The Public Service Regulation provided that all vacant posts should be filled within a period of 6 months from the date such post became vacant. Whilst under Mass Participation Programme an amount of R 4, 669 was rolled over by the Department, another bad reflection was that virement applied in the Department suggested that a lot of money was spent on the compensation of employees without addressing the vacancy rate within the Department. The Committee had noted with concern that virements by the Department had exceeded 8% of their overall Budget Vote.