The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure
(1)
(a) I have been informed that the Department has developed 30 audit action plans out of the 30 recommendations. The Department’s internal audit unit has completed the adequacy review of the audit actions plans. Binder Dijker Otte South Africa Services (Pty) Ltd (BDO) will be testing the effectiveness of the implementation of the audit action plans on the 20 December 2021. An update will be provided to the Audit Committee who, in return, will provide it to me.Once the process has been completed, I can be in a position to provide a comprehensive response.
(b) There were two audit findings related to safety. I will provide a comprehensive report once the process mentioned in 1(a) above has been completed.
(2) The report has been tabled to the Acting Secretary to Parliament and to the Speaker of the National Assembly. It is their responsibility to table the report to the Internal Audit Committee of Parliament.