The Committee welcomed a commitment to ensure implementation of audit management plans and finalisation of policies and legislation development. It further commended the Department for the extensive work done on the Green Paper on Land Reform, a major policy document that could help to rescue the South African land reform programme. However, there were concerns about lack of feedback and meaningful engagement between the Department and the Committee about the Green Paper process to date. Further engagement has been proposed, especially in view of the proposed piece-meal approach that proposed that, if a particular area of work was completed, the Department would recommend developing a policy, seek approval of the Cabinet and later draft legislation which in turn would be submitted to Parliament. The Committee also expect the Department to table a report of the inputs from the public and the council of stakeholders for their consideration rather than getting the selected information by the Department on the green paper on land reform.