NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 1090
DATE OF PUBLICATION: FRIDAY 01 APRIL 2011 [IQP No 10 -2011] SECOND SESSION,
FOURTH PARLIAMENT
Question 1090 for written reply: National Assembly, Mr M Swart (DA) to ask
the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries:
(1) Why was the R18,9 million which was included in the Adjustments
Estimates and requested on an urgent basis by her department for combating
classical swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease not expended in the third
quarter of the 2010/11 financial year;
(2) whether she has found that the timeous expenditure of the amount would
have averted the current outbreak of foot and mouth disease in KwaZulu-
Natal; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details? NW1212E
REPLY:
(1) The Adjustments Appropriation Act, 2010 (Act No. 23 of 2010) was
published in Government Gazette No. 22840 of 3 December 2010. The
funds were only made available by National Treasury on 7 December 2010
after enactment. A payment of R3 918 925,54 was made on 22Â December
2010 in respect of classical swine fever. In respect of the
purchasing of foot and mouth disease vaccines, a payment of R4 567
887,66 was made on 9 December 2010 and a further payment of R3 432
112,34 was made on 23 March 2011 as this consignment was only
delivered in March 2011. In respect of the combating of the spread of
the foot and mouth disease outbreak in Limpopo expenditure to the
amount of R6 329 296,38 was made in the course of the 2010/11
financial year.
(2) The amounts referred to above were to control and eradicate classical
swine fever and the combating of the foot and mouth disease outbreak
in Limpopo. The current outbreak of foot and mouth diseases occurs in
KwaZulu-Natal. The outbreaks happened in different provinces and have
different control measures. There is therefore no link between the
control and the prevention of these diseases.