Thank you, hon Rev Meshoe. Obviously, government's position is that all the service providers ought to be paid within 30 days of providing such service. Where delays occur, there are channels for addressing them. As the President has already indicated, a hotline is going to be opened. That will be one more channel for addressing such delays.
My office has also received similar requests from time to time from service providers who are aggrieved, and we have ensured that we act with the requisite speed to nudge the relevant chief financial officers to meet their commitments. It is a challenge, I must admit, that in certain instances officials actually hide bills in order to cause such delays because they are mismanaging the funds. This is a problem we are aware of. We will take steps to ensure that we eliminate it. At local government level, we are looking at processes to ensure that each one of the municipalities would have deployed people with accounting qualifications, who need to be trained on the job. [Time expired.]