4.1 The Committee, during its consideration of the Constitution Twelfth Amendment Bill of 2005, engaged the public through a process of calling for written submissions. The Committee considered the written submissions so received, as well as written submissions received from the public and provincial legislatures on that Bill that were submitted to the Speaker of the Assembly and the Chairperson of the NCOP by the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development in terms of the public involvement procedure contained in the Constitution itself, namely in section 74(5) and (6)(a) and (b). The content of those submissions remains relevant for purposes of re-enacting, by means of the Thirteenth Amendment Bill, those provisions of the Constitution that have been declared to be inconsistent with the Constitution and therefore invalid by the Constitutional Court in the Matatiele case.