However, the Committee emphasized the need for the DTI to work closely with institutions that would be able to provide the necessary support for industrial policy so as to achieve the goals set out in the "Framework". The Minister agreed and added that the "response to this crisis situation should be guided firstly by how jobs can be defended and secondly by whether existing strategic industrial capacity can be defended". He further argued that this response should lay the foundation for longer-term sustainable development within some of these industries.