The Committee , however, cautioned Eskom, saying that all stakeholders, namely Parliament and Eskom, had to work together as it was easy to damage the utility's credit rating, which would then have dire consequences for the country. Better ways of communicating needed to be established. The Committee queried the amount of R950 million reflected for road repairs in the financial statements, and asked why this had risen so steeply from R161 million in the previous year. The Committee also wanted to know what Eskom was doing with regard to illegal electricity connections. The Minister of Public Enterprises had responded to a written question in Parliament, indicating that an amount of R625 million had been lost by Eskom due to illegal electricity connections.