The Committee on the Auditor-General (the Committee) agreed in their Business Plan, to accompany the Auditor-General in visiting audit challenged municipalities in the country. The visits would expose Members in grasping the challenges faced by those municipalities and also see how the Auditor-General assist them. Most of these municipalities owed audit fees to the Auditor-General and are, in many cases, unable to pay, thereby compromising the Auditor-General and duties performed by the Auditor- General. Section 2 of the Public Audit Act, 2004, mandates the Committee on the Auditor - General "to assist ... the Auditor - General in order to ensure ...the effectiveness of the Auditor - General". In order to contribute to this object of the Act, and also support the " Clean Audit 2014 " campaign, the Committee accompanied the Auditor - General in visiting some of the municipalities with negative audit opinions challenges, in North West Province.