The DA will support the Home Affairs budget because we believe that Minister Dlamini-Zuma is serious about her undertaking to turn the department around, and that she has been open and honest about problems facing the department. She has also announced measures to deal with those problems in her Budget speech on 26 June 2009.
For the benefit of this House, I would like to reiterate the call to the Minister to address the following priorities: the filling of existing vacancies; the eradication of existing backlogs within three months; the intensification of efforts to root out corruption in the department, especially with regard to new information that corruption in this department has risen by 415% between 2006 and 2008; and to launch an investigation into the cost of the Who am I Online project. Thank you.