Our government takes the task of planning for our future and improving our current performance very seriously. The Green Paper on improving government performance paves the way for our single and focused desire to deliver on our mandate to the people of South Africa. Government is committed to ensuring that we have a performance that makes a meaningful impact on the lives of our people. Since 1994 we have made very serious and numerous advances. We have also improved the lives of our people. But we recognise that in some areas our outcomes have been below standard. Budget increases and expenditure on services have not always brought the results we wanted or which our people expected.