Chairperson, unfortunately one minute is not enough time for me to go into a dream and wake up from this dream that the Minister has. Notwithstanding that, hon Minister, we want to support this noble objective of ensuring that there are clean audits by 2014.
However, there are a couple of challenges. The first challenge is capacity. We have heard about projects before; we have heard - some in the House would have heard - about Project Consolidate, which was intended to beef up the capacity of officials at a municipal government level.
It didn't work. Many chief financial officers in municipalities don't have even the wherewithal to prepare statements that the Auditor-General can report on, and this is where, Minister, your department has got to ensure capacity.
Secondly, with reference to the oversight mechanism, municipal public account committees don't exist. They are not compulsory; they are mandatory at national level, they are mandatory at provincial level, but it is still something that municipalities may adopt. We need to ensure, as a House, that we adopt legislation that makes municipal public accounts committees compulsory, so that in every municipality there is an oversight mechanism that can ensure that the audit reports are looked into and that measures are put in place that will ensure clean audits. But we support this objective, and we will be back here in 2011 to hear what you have to say about progress. Thank you. [Time expired.] [Applause.]