We were very clear from the very beginning that we were not going to follow the normal bureaucratic channels that were blocking housing delivery. Therefore you have to understand those issues in that particular context.
Member Robinson raised the issue of priorities being shifted, that those monies were taken away and then channelled into the N2. I want to put facts here categorically and make them very clear. The very first thing that Mayor Zille did - and please write this down - when she came in was to take money amounting to R31 million away from housing projects in terms of hostel development in Nyanga and other areas. She shifted that to fire services. Please write that down. [Interjections.]
The reason she did that was because, in her campaign - in the DA's campaign - fire services was their top priority. Therefore they had to take this money away from needy people and give it to fire services. [Interjections.] The DA must look at itself. Don't come here and score points when you don't have the facts.
Let me move further on. I think I do want to repeat this point, which I also made last night on Special Assignment. I take serious exception to anybody who would stand on any platform and say that the kind of efforts that this government is making are about vote-catching. Our work is about delivering to needy people and poor people. [Interjections.] They have nothing to do with the elections or vote-catching. I can understand that this can only be said by people who don't care about the needy and the poor. [Interjections.]