Speaker, we have heard the Deputy President explain to us that there will be an infrastructure co-ordinating committee. It is a positive step forward, but we have to accept on two levels that there may still be some serious problems in terms of actually getting the projects off the ground.
The first matter concerns practicality. If we look at the expenditure that was highlighted by the Auditor-General in key departments that are also going to fulfil very important roles within this infrastructure roll-out, then we see that there was underexpenditure and a clear lack of capacity.
To mention just one of the departments: Yesterday a presentation was made and Minister Sbu Ndebele acknowledged that government had to learn very harsh lessons from the Gauteng Freeway toll project. How do you foresee that we will avert similar issues in future?
Are we not creating too many additional co-ordination committees? To mention one, the monitoring task team on the turnaround of the SABC has been operational for 20 months, but we have not really seen significant progress on government guarantees. Are we not going to run into problems again with financial accounting through these projects? Thank you.