Chairperson, yes, the training targets will be met. Let me remind the hon member and, indeed, all hon members that, in terms of the Public Finance Management Act, PFMA, our financial management system is organised in terms of executive authorities and accounting officers that move across all national and provincial departments.
The primary responsibility for financial management lies with accounting officers and, when they report to this Chamber or committees of this Chamber and, indeed, to committees at provincial level, it is Parliament that has an important responsibility to ensure that expenditure takes place in the right way.
But, there is no doubt that leaks from our fiscus are unacceptable to all of us in this House. There is no doubt that the work of the Auditor-General and the SIU is absolutely crucial. But what we need to do a lot more of is get a new culture in the public sector and a new culture in the private sector - a culture which says that stealing taxpayers' money in one form or another, either by officials or by anybody else, is totally unacceptable. We will continue to tighten the financial management system as we go forward.
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