Mr Speaker, the Public Service Commission recommends that senior managers who do not submit financial disclosures should be charged with misconduct. Yet months after due date there has been no action. The Public Service Act states that criminal charges must be laid for financial misdemeanours of R100 000 or more. Yet, most officials found guilty of this offence receive only a written warning. Perhaps this is why, in one year, fruitless and wasteful expenditure by national departments increased by 200% and irregular expenditure rose from R13 billion to R21 billion.
Mr Deputy President, why do you allow this phenomenal failure in implementing the law on financial management in the Public Service? [Interjections.] [Applause.]