Thank you House Chair. Minister, on a recent oversight visit by the portfolio committee on Mineral Resources and Energy at the various department's entities we uncovered significant overlaps in the roles, mandates and responsibilities of the Council for
Geosciences, the Petroleum Agency for South Africa, PetroSA and the department itself with regard to the petroleum sector specifically. Given that all these entities have their own boards and their own organisational structures incurring massive costs, will you commit to merging and rationalisation them into a more cost effective structure, and if so, how?