Chairperson, indeed, let me give you two examples in regard to the Mier Municipality. There is the upgrading of the external water supply to Klein and Groot Mier, and there is an allocation of just about R4 million for that. In regard to Rietfontein, there is the construction of 1,83 km of road for R4,5 million. It does actually say that.
Now, I would like to point out that we obviously work with the municipalities to get some of this information. As you know, there are three spheres of government. We have to work with the MECs and we rely on them and the politicians at the municipal level to give us information.
The first port of call of oversight resides with the local legislatures in the provinces, and the provincial governments. The second port of call of oversight, if you like, resides with us at the national level. However, actually the most fundamental point of oversight resides with the people that live there.
Therefore, when we give you this information, we base it substantially on the information we are given by councillors and officials, but what would really help us, besides the assistance of our own MECs working in the provinces, is for parliamentarians living in those areas to tell us when the information we get is not accurate. They need to answer to Parliament and really that's not happening.
We are very keen on this, hon member. We will give you, say, about two or three months for you to go through this. If you live in an area or nearby, you can help us by drawing the attention of the national Department of Co- operative Governance and Traditional Affairs to the fact that the information is not accurate. We rely on people like you. Thank you indeed.