3.1 Given the President's State of the Nation Address, which committed government departments to filling all vacancies within three months, the CSPB and the CMCs had been requested to provide the Committee with a list of all its vacancies by Monday, 28 February 2011. The information was provided within the timeframe and is being considered. The Committee welcomes the National Commissioner's commitment to fill all vacancies by the end of the 2011/12 financial year as this would go a long way towards easing CMCs' and CSPBs' case loads.