. That Committee on Appropriations should look at ways to align reporting cycles and engage with Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs to align and synchronise national, provincial and local spheres of government planning, budgeting and implementation of programmes. This systemic governance issue is impeding planning and implementation of programmes and should be seriously looked at and joint committee meeting between Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs and Portfolio Committee on Energy need to be convened to examine this matter.