Please, there is a White Paper on Remand Detention. Could I just say, as you are aware, hon Selfe, we set up a team; that team produced the White Paper; that White Paper on Remand Detention went through a Cabinet process; and that paper was referred to Parliament. That White Paper was referred to Parliament along with the amendments to the Act.
Now, I would have expected - and I am sure you can check this matter with your team when you are at your portfolio committee meeting - that there would have been a process of consultation from the side of the portfolio committee. But from our side, you know very well that on the day - in fact, that day we came from Cabinet - I came here and presented to you the fact that the Act was now ready for you to process and that the White Paper was also ready, which was of course as a result of broad consultation amongst government departments at the time.
So, regarding that process of consultation with civil society, I would have expected that it would have been a process that would have been undertaken by the portfolio committee. [Interjections.] I hear somebody saying study group. Of course things go to the study group, but I know that I appeared before the portfolio committee. Thank you.
Plans for revitalisation of ageing SANDF materiel and car fleet
168. Mr M S Motimele (ANC) asked the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans:
Whether there are any plans in place regarding the revitalisation of the ageing SA National Defence Force materiel and car fleet in order to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of defence operations; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?