Whether her department, in pursuing a nuclear energy build programme, had (a) carefully factored in the Government’s policy position as captured in the Integrated Resource Plan and the National Development Plan (NDP), particularly the caution of the NDP for Government to evaluate the potentially prohibitive capital costs of nuclear energy as this required a level of investment unprecedented in the country, (b) worked out plans A, B and C to comfortably meet cost overruns of 50%, 75% and 100% in an increasingly costlier capital market following a possible down grading by rating agencies and (c) requested the Portfolio Committee on Energy to conduct public hearings with a view to reporting to Parliament the inputs received from experts and the public and the recommendations that the Portfolio Committee on Energy was therefore making to Parliament; if not, why not in each case; if so, what are the relevant details in each case?