Hon Chairperson, hon Minister, Deputy Minister and all hon members, the NFP welcomes the budget of R48,7 billion and the 8,2% increase on the previous budget. However, we note with great concern that there was an underexpenditure of R240 million on public transport in the previous financial year, which contributes to a lack of service delivery. We hope that the department will look into ways and means of making sure that such high underexpenditure does not happen again in this 2014-15 financial year.
The public transport budget increases from R10,8 billion to R11,3 billion. But it remains a big challenge how rural and scholar transport is going to be seen through, ...