3.1.8 ELM is of the view that national departments who owe them money is letting them down because these national departments know that municipalities do not have a lot of money but still these departments are not paying them. ELM strongly believed that if these departments paid them in time, most of that revenue collected would have been put into productive use and improve service delivery. ELM committed to supply the Committee with a list of departments who are not paying them on time.