Thank you, Chairperson, and I thank the Minister for the reply. Minister, you know very well that these are highly controversial awarding of contracts. The contracts and the awarding of the contracts have been the subject of an investigation by the Special Investigating Unit, the SIU. We have had a report from the SIU. I am also aware that your department got a legal opinion that said it should not oppose the review proceedings that were launched in the North Gauteng High Court into the awarding of this contract.
I would really like to know from the Minister why the department ignored that legal advice to go along with the review proceedings. Secondly, because this doesn't only concern the late Vernie Petersen's role, I would like to know whether she is prepared to investigate the role played by the former Minister of Correctional Services in the awarding of these contracts, and if not, why not.