Well, if the Minister of Defence is overstretched by financial problems, we are also overstretched. Because in this economic climate, when Treasury starts doing budget cuts, they start doing it in the mostly in the JCPS Cluster, because they save the social cluster because kids must go to school and because when you go to hospitals, you must find medicine, doctors and nurses.
So, the only place they can cut is here. It is not only the army. I have just informed you that if we had the entire budget, we would increase four or five times the number of Home Affairs inspectors, but we simply don't have the resources to do so. So if the army is complaining that their resources are overstretched, we also have overstretched resources in Home Affairs because the cuts are happening in the JCPS Cluster. Those people who belong to the portfolio committee, unfortunately are not in this House, will remember that when we presented our Annual Performance Plan, APP, there was a big argument because we showed them budget cuts that are going to happen in the next three years; about 7%, 9%, etc, and they
were asking if that is not going to affect service delivery. But that is the reality that we are faced with. Thank you.
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