Deputy Speaker, section 12(4) of the money bills amendment Act requires that the Minister of Finance must table a Division of Revenue Amendment Bill with the revised fiscal framework, if the adjustments Budget effects changes to the Division of Revenue Act for the relevant year, and that is to enable us as Parliament to exercise our powers and to investigate fully those amendments.
In this case, we've seen the adjustments for 2010 which concern the Division of Revenue Act and hence this Bill. So we've seen that the revised provincial allocations include R4,2 billion being added, which includes R3,8 billion for higher salary and housing allowance costs; R350 million to cover the costs of occupation-specific dispensation agreements in health; R769 million towards the devolution of the property rate funds grant to provinces; and there are a number of other figures for provincial allocations.
What is crucial is for us as parliamentarians to fully interrogate those figures against the background of what the Minister of Finance has said. There are also additional allocations of R1,8 billion to the local government equitable share, including R92 million for drought relief in Mossel Bay, which the ACDP welcomes.
In exercising our oversight functions, we need to ensure that these additional allocations are spent on the purposes for which they've been appropriated. Of great concern to us is that, according to the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, capital expenditure continues to underperform in terms of the budgeted amounts, with an estimated R12,9 billion in capital underspending by provincial and local governments for the past financial year.
We as parliamentarians must ensure that both provinces and municipalities have the capacity to spend these vast sums of money allocated and that such rollovers do not happen again, particularly in view of the new powers we have in terms of the money bills amendment Act. Notwithstanding this, however, the ACDP will support this Bill. I thank you. [Applause.]