Deputy Speaker, hon Minister, yesterday hon Marius Swart emphasised that departments such as the South African Police Service, Agriculture and Cogta have spent nearly 100% of their 2010-2011 budget allocations. Minister, our concern is that there is no correlation between spending and performance. Evidence of this is the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, which spent 97% of its allocation but achieved only 35% performance.
Has the Minister gone into the causes of these problems? Why is it that we have the capacity to spend the money but when it comes to performance, we witness dismal failure? The disjunction between capacity spending and performance means only one thing to us, and that is fruitless expenditure. My question to you, hon Minister, is this: Can you explain to us the disjunction between the percentage of budgets spent and performance?