Deputy Speaker, a total of R236,2 million budgeted for the compensation of employees is not being spent and represents savings, if they can be so called, from unfilled vacant posts. Many of these posts are in the crucial programmes of development and social reintegration.
Could the Minister explain what she is doing to attract and retain skilled staff so that the department can deliver on its core mandate of rehabilitating offenders? In the portfolio committee only this morning, we heard from the inspecting judge that in many correctional centres there are no rehabilitation programmes that can be rolled out because there are no educationalists, no skills training and, in many cases, no adequate care. Thank you.