Deputy Speaker, yes, as I said, we look at a range of management practices that have been agreed upon by all the transversal institutions - those that are supposed to provide services to departments. It is a template and was developed and tested in a pilot project that we ran the previous year. We are now rolling it out to the rest of the departments. The results, which we are going to produce and present to all portfolio committees, specifically the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration, will tell you which management practices are lacking; in which departments; and what evidence we have to prove our opinion that this department is not performing properly.
That information is meant to assist the departments to improve on their particular issues. So, we will know that in this area, the department has not been doing well. When we do it the next time, we need to see improvement and along the way we are going to determine which areas need to be improved. The departments themselves are working very hard to try and pull out those issues. So, that report is not necessarily like the Auditor- General's report - sometimes we get it, but things just end there and then we start complaining about it. We need improvement all the time. We need to be able to say, "This issue has been dealt with; those have not been done." The management of all the departments and the provinces that have been dealt with are very keen to participate in the project. They are very keen to improve their plans and to identify the weaknesses themselves. They prefer that to having the weaknesses identified from outside. I think this is a project that is likely to succeed if it is carried out successfully.
Particulars regarding recovery of irregular expenditure incurred by State Information Technology Agency
118. Mr L Ramatlakane (Cope) asked the Minister for the Public Service and Administration:
(1) Whether her department has managed to ensure the recovery of the over R200 million that was reported by the Auditor-General as irregular expenditure by the State Information Technology Agency (Sita); if not, why not; if so, what (a) amount has been recovered in terms of the Public Finance Management Act, Act 1 of 1999, (b) amount is outstanding and (c) recovery plan has been put in place;
(2) whether any progress has been made with the latest 32 cases of maladministration that have been identified in Sita; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
(3) whether the cases had been reported to the SA Police Service; if not, why not; if so, what has been the progress in this regard?