Chairperson, the UCDP accepts the adjustments made in the Adjustments Appropriation Bill. We, however, would like to highlight the following: Very few departments do get a clean bill on audit opinion, which means that most of the units in financial managements are still wanting. I could give an example of the Department of Science and Technology, which has received a clean audit opinion for the previous financial year. Well done! However, eleven departments still received a qualified audit opinion.
Of serious concern is the Department of Defence, which received a qualified audit opinion for seven consecutive years followed by the Department of Labour, which has four years of qualified audit opinion and the Department of Public Works had an irregular expenditure of R5,4 billion.
Underspending by departments is another concern which has resulted into roll-overs of R1,5 billion for infrastructure and building projects, and it spells out that work has not been done.
There are major strides taken to improve the Department of Home Affairs which still has to pay attention to the following: Its revenue collections - about R356 million revenue couldn't be supported by documents in this department; there was an irregular expenditure of R198,2 million; and corruption is still the main challenge in the Department of Home Affairs. With these remarks, we support the Adjustments Appropriation Bill. I thank you. [Applause.]