The Committee noted that, in the past, the Division of Revenue Act (DORA) had a clause that compelled departments to spend, at least, 4 per cent of their allocations for capacity building. This clause had since been removed. The grants aimed at building capacity were not being adequately utilised by the departments, e.g. Financial Management Grant. The consequence of this was that there were capacity constraints across departments and provinces. Inevitably, this has affected service delivery. Furthermore, the Committee was of the view that if it was left to the respective provinces to decide on whether infrastructure projects should be machine or labour intensive, the EPWP would not achieve its objectives. Labour-intensive projects were not necessarily sub-standard.