The Department pointed out its area of delivery shortfalls and attributed this to a range of reasons, some of which comprised inadequate financial resources, inherent delays of the legislative process and the framing of multi-year activities as a single performance event and/or output. The Committee, however is still of the view that the identified shortfalls can be corrected. The Committee, having assessed the work of the Department through the annual report as well as expenditure patterns through the mid-term review, commended it for attaining an unqualified audit opinion in the 2009/10 financial year, and for spending 98% of its budget.