Hon Minister, year after year the problem of overcrowding is raised. The question from the DA is: When is the Minister going to look at an accurate forecasting model of the prison population, where the Minister can say what the number of awaiting-trial people coming into your centres in the next five years will be? That is the first part of it.
The second part is that both Judge Jali, from the Jali Commission, and Judge Yekiso, from the Office of the Inspecting Judge, referred to forecasting models. I think the time has come for us to look at this, because we are going to spend R8 billion on new prisons in the next financial year. We really need to look at some forecasting models. That is my question, Madam Speaker.