Thank you, hon Speaker. This department has a backlog on asylum seekers appeals of 150 000. It is of great concern that R200 billion has become a contingent liability. The e-visa was supposed to have been piloted in April. Today, seven months later and still in this House, speeches by the ANC members even last week have lauded our e-visa system that has not been implemented.
The Department of Home Affairs is spending 5% above wage budgets. This is unsustainable. The DA has provided a solution but no one listens. Supply chain issues, irregular expenditure, poor internal controls downtimes ... [Inaudible.] ... the elephant in the room let alone the Government Printing Work who did not even bother to produce their audit report. This department consists of only 770 immigration officials who were missing in action to assist refugees with their recent plight in Cape Town.
The DA will not support this Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report. I thank you.