Chair, I notice that most of the DA members are on their earphones listening to the resignation of Mmusi Maimane, but let's deal with this question. [Laughter.] Now Minister, we agree that at the centre of Eskom's crisis it's these power purchase agreement: Firstly, you can't underestimate the negative impact it is costing on the financial stability of Eskom, and what we raised yesterday about the coal prices.
Okay, in terms of coal prices, you say that you are negotiating. Why don't you just give an instruction that all the coal prices must be consistent with what Nersa has determined? Why would you want to take forever because you are just delaying the crisis? If it's going to take the approach that you are taking, it is not going to help you anyhow in terms of what should effectively happen.
So, the issue is: Why don't you just comply with the Nersa instructions in terms of coal, and then deal with the independent negotiation of power purchase agreements by Eskom, because Eskom is not involved now with these IPPs. Someone else imposes those contracts on Eskom. This becomes entirely problematic and it causes huge chaos in terms of its financial stability.
Can't we take a different approach in terms of how we stabilising Eskom instead of throwing money like we did yesterday through that nonsensical Special Appropriation Bill?