4.6 During the consideration of, and deliberations on, the written submissions, the Committee called for a briefing on the status of service delivery in the area of the Matatiele municipality, as well as on the trends of expenditure of the province of the Eastern Cape. Information presented to the Committees by the Department of Provincial and Local Government indicated no material breakdown in respect of service delivery levels in that area and that there is a significant committal by the newly constituted Matatiele municipality to the development of infrastructure up to 2009. The Committee noted that there is no material under-expenditure in respect of, inter alia, services relating to health and education by the province of the Eastern Cape in relation to expenditure by the province of KwaZulu- Natal, or indeed other provinces.