Deputy Minister, one of the key areas of focus of the integrated monitoring framework requires that there should be audited knowledge of interaction between planning, budgeting and implementation. This is to ensure that there are interventions to address problems as they arise. Now, if we have an integrated monitoring framework, how did we get to the point where our
municipalities are at a point of collapse, undetected, when we have a monitoring system in place that was supposed to see that don't get to that point at any given time? Thank you, Chair.