In relation to public infrastructure investment and social assistance, the FFC reported that government should develop and implement a comprehensive national infrastructure maintenance strategy, appropriate funding mechanisms through intergovernmental coordination to facilitate, integrate and sequence infrastructure planning and delivery. Social assistance should be managed in such a way as to eventually reduce dependency on the social grants. Government should use infrastructure expansion to provide opportunity for workfare programmes as well as activities identified in the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP). Government agreed with all these recommendations.