Mr Speaker, arising from the hon President's response, the Minister of Finance announced during the Budget Speech that a major site of both wastage and inefficiency is in our procurement system. He went on to say that even where there is absolutely no corruption, we sometimes give contracts to people who cannot implement them.
The Minister of Finance also said that greater transparency and accountability in procurement systems will be a key focus of reform in the period ahead. The ACDP clearly supports this, and the President alluded to the steps that would be taken in this regard with the Interministerial Committee on Corruption.
Now, generally speaking, when one has shoddy workmanship or incomplete building projects and the results are collapses, leaking houses and schools, or crumbling roads and bridges, one has legal recourses to take against those companies. Would the hon President give an indication that where this occurs, the state will take legal action to recover damages and repair those deficiencies, particularly given the budgetary constraints and service-delivery protests that we are faced with? Thank you.