House Chair,
following the President's call for lifestyle audits, to be conducted for public officials in the public service and administration. The department is in the process of finalising legislative framework, which will enable all departments in the public administration including local government, to conduct lifestyle audits of its employees. Draft regulations have been prepared for public comment. The Public Administration Management Act established the public administration ethics and Disciplinary Technical Assistance Unit. It is the function of this unit to assist the departments where requested, to conduct such lifestyle audits and refer matters necessary to the relevant law enforcement authority. The Department of Public Service and Administration is reconfiguring its organisational structure to locate position and position the unit to provide such required assistance. I must say that there is a probability that this lifestyle audit will extend beyond just members of the public service, as I say already, in local government we are going there. I will go to state-owned enterprises, SOEs, that is public entities, but it will also go to elected members, possible starting with the members of the Cabinet. Discussions have been there but we haven't begun to systematise it, but it is coming and is desirable.