Hon Speaker, I wish to apologise for omitting to respond to the statement on the R20 billion guarantee. I want to re-assure members of this House that this is not additional funding, as was indicated by the DA Leader. It is a R20 billion guarantee from government to allow us, Eskom, to raise loans from the market. This will allow for the building of the Kusile Power Plant, and we will therefore be able to bring about the security of the supply of electricity to South African industry and households.
I want to ask, since I know that the DA is not a member of Cabinet and none of them is a Minister, which Ministers were not consulted, because the support that government lent to Eskom through Cabinet was a product of the Department of Public Enterprises, DPE, the National Treasury and the Department of Energy. We co-authored the memo which solicited the support of Cabinet, which was duly given, as reported by the GCIS Director-General last week. So, I just want to put that to rest.
I also want to say that the issues ... [Interjections.]