The committee is concerned that despite the year-on-year growth in the number of qualified Environmental Management Inspectors, the overwhelming number of these EMIs work on 'green issues' with a comparatively small number of EMIs, less than 20% of the total, focusing on the so-called 'brown issues' of compliance and enforcement in the fields of waste management and air quality management. There needs to be a concerted effort by the department not only to grow the number of EMIs, but to ensure that more are trained in 'brown issues'.