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4872 [Tuesday, 29 October 20136. FINANCE AND SERVICE DELIVERY PERFORMANCEASSESSMENTThis section assesses the service delivery performance againstspending patterns for 2012/13 <strong>and</strong> 2013/14 including efficiency,effectiveness <strong>and</strong> value for money.Generally, all the service delivery performance <strong>of</strong> the Department<strong>and</strong> South African Tourism show effectiveness, efficiency <strong>and</strong> valuefor money. The area where there is no value for money is Exp<strong>and</strong>edPublic Works Programme. Most <strong>of</strong> the projects were incomplete butthe entire budget had been spent. In some cases there is poorworkmanship on the structures constructed whereby structures hadto be dismantled <strong>and</strong> new ones constructed to meet requiredst<strong>and</strong>ards. In other instances, cases <strong>of</strong> fraud had been reported <strong>and</strong>forensic investigations are in progress. The Committee supports theDepartment in its endeavours <strong>of</strong> conducting forensic audits <strong>and</strong>opening court cases to reduce crime <strong>and</strong> corruption.7. KEY FINDINGS7.1 Technical issuesSection 40 (1) (e) <strong>of</strong> the Public Finance management Act <strong>of</strong> 1999stipulates that the accounting <strong>of</strong>ficer for a department, trading entityor constitutional institution must, in the case <strong>of</strong> a constitutionalinstitution, submit to <strong>Parliament</strong> that institution’s annual report <strong>and</strong>financial statements, <strong>and</strong> the Auditor- General’s report on thosestatements, within one month after the accounting <strong>of</strong>ficer receivedthe Auditor-General’s audit report. The Department <strong>and</strong> SouthAfrican Tourism tabled their Annual Reports on time <strong>and</strong> met thetechnical requirements <strong>of</strong> submission to <strong>Parliament</strong>. The Committeenotes with appreciation that the Department <strong>and</strong> South AfricanTourism have always met this technical requirement over the years.This gave the Committee ample time to study the documents inpreparation for the BRRR.However, there is a challenge with regard to quarterly reporting.The Committee made a concession with the Department that theDepartment will be allowed to present quarterly <strong>reports</strong> bi-annuallyinstead <strong>of</strong> quarterly. However, the Department did not honour thatconcession as no <strong>reports</strong> were presented to the Committee for thewhole financial year under review. This meant that the Committeeonly received service delivery <strong>and</strong> performance information whenthe Department tabled Annual Reports. Non-reporting by theDepartment at regular intervals undermined the capacity <strong>of</strong> theCommittee to detect emerging service delivery <strong>and</strong> performanceissues as they occurred. This posed a challenge during thecompilation <strong>of</strong> this report as no quarterly information was availablefrom the Department. The Department should revert to the quarterlyANNOUNCEMENTS, TABLINGS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS NO 147─2013
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