has seen an increase in real terms of two point one three percent which is encouraging this will help ensure that the necessary tools and support services are provided to assist members in their constituency duties the tension between time spent on work done at parliament and time allocated to members to work in constituencies too often results in constituency time being sacrificed parliament must not be allowed to hijack members who should be in their constituencies more the acdp notes with approval that the two thousand ten estimates of national expenditure indicate that parliament intends to review its policies particularly those dealing with communication entertainment and travel to ensure efficiency in spending slight improvements have been noted regarding speaking time for smaller parties but the acdp would like to see parliament take a closer look at comparative situations and the philosophy of speaking time allocation in general one good thing at least from my point of view is that the anc has not been quite so boring of late as they attempt to fill up their exorbitant amount of speaking time and the small concessions for opposition parties have produced more useful budget debates