The Committee noted that the Department was initially invited to give a full briefing on its expenditure trends on 22 August 2012 but postponed the said meeting at the request of the Director-General: Communications (DG). The reason for the request to postpone was in order to allow the Department to discuss the expenditure of transferred funds with its entities. Thereafter the Department requested to brief the Committee on 4 September 2012. The Department again requested that the meeting be postponed for the same reasons to which the Committee unanimously disagreed. The Committee received an apology from the DG for the scheduled meeting on 4 September 2012. The Department was subsequently informed that the DG needed to attend the meeting; therefore the meeting did not take place.