2.1 The Department's officials that appeared before the Committee for the briefing on the budget included Mr T Faba (Acting Director-General), Ms T Mketi (Deputy Director-General for Monitoring and Evaluation) and other departmental officials. The main objective of the meeting was to allow the Department to brief the Committee on its 2009/10 medium term budget, priority projects per programme and how it intends to address the challenges encountered with regards to realising its expanded mandate.