7. Questions by the delegation The Committee raised the following questions: 1) Whether there were any means to control some of the constructions that was taking place during the intervention process; 2) Whether the department was going to interfere with buildings when doing rezoning and make a special spatial framework for the area; 3) Whether there were buildings in the stands that were going to be subdivided; 4) Whether the people were building on business sites; 5) When the Minister was expected to sign off on the intervention framework as it had to be presented to Parliament by Minister for monitoring and evaluation; 6) Whether the affected people had received notices and if so, how they were distributed as indicated that the people were not available at the time; 7) Why the City of Johannesburg billed the department an amount of R300 000 for services related to illegal connections; 8) Whether the steering committee had a legal expert who would who would take statements from witnesses so that they could not be thrown out of court because of legal technicalities.