3. Reported spending pressures: According to the Department, spending pressures have affected the following areas adversely: . Escalating security costs in service points and offices. The Department continues to identify crime against staff and public at service points and offices to be a risk. Despite budget cuts it intends to improve safety and security. In 2011/12, the Department was able to complete 50 security infrastructure projects in courts that it prioritised after a threat and risk assessment. Over the course of the next two years, the Department intends to stretch its resources to rollout security systems to 70 additional courts. (Notably, the Committee recommended in its Budgetary review and recommendation report (BRRR) that the Department receive an additional amount of R319 million for improved security for courts and justice service points. This amount was not made available as substantial amounts had been allocated in past MTEFs to improve security at courts and, in addition, the Department did not include a request in its 2011 MTEF submission). . Increases in rental costs and municipal service rates exceed the official inflation rate. . Increasing facilities to improve access to justice. A major challenge is to address historical imbalances in terms of court infrastructure and is further complicated by factors such as the escalation of infrastructure costs above inflation impacting on cash flows for the building of new courts; balancing the needs of new courts with the maintenance and repair of existing courts; using the infrastructure budget for additional accommodation and growth in the establishment and new areas of services. (The Committee recommended in the 2011 BRRR that the Department be granted R224 million for accommodation. National Treasury responded that substantial funding had been recommended for the construction of new courts). . Infrastructure support to other stakeholders. Spending pressures include increasing the establishment of the lower courts and providing judicial officers with tools of trade. . The Department has identified investment in information technology as a key enabler. It has been allocated R100 million towards ICT infrastructure for 2012/13. Part of this will be used for the Business Continuity Programme. Additional budget is needed for software development and implementation of IT systems. . Increased capacity. This related to costs for the expansion of support personnel establishment in the courts (interpreters, finance and supply change management personnel), as well as staff performing quasi- judicial functions (default judgements, court orders, warrants of execution, etc.). . The implementation costs of proposed and new legislation