The Committee urges further engagements with the Department on the appropriate and optimum mechanism or vehicle through which water infrastructure provisioning should take place. In this context, questions were raised about the transfer of assets from the Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) to the Department and the ability of the TCTA, without assets on its books, to borrow from capital markets and financial institutions. The Committee would like to start a conversation with the Department on optimal funding arrangements for the TCTA.