Mr Chairman, the leaked findings of the ministerial task team report, which hon Kilian has alluded to and which deals with the crisis that is currently plaguing Sentech, indicated that this is a public enterprise that's in free fall, which, and I quote, "is in urgent need of a turnaround strategy".
It is for this reason, Mr Chairman, that we in the DA look forward to next week's report-back session when Sentech will have an opportunity to brief the portfolio committee on this turnaround plan and on the restructuring of the executive management. Surely the time has come for this task team report to be released in full. My question to the Minister is, how can the parliamentary portfolio committee be expected to conduct oversight, particularly given the recent resignation of the acting CEO and the allegations which have been levelled against the former chief financial officer, CFO? How can Parliament be expected to conduct effective oversight if it doesn't have sight of this crucial report?
If the Minister won't release the report - and I hear he was very circuitous in his answer about wanting to get to the root of the problems - can he elaborate more clearly what the problem is? What does the department have to hide that would prevent Parliament from being an effective overseer of this entity? Thank you.