Deputy Speaker, the EFF rejects the Budget Review and Recommendation Report of the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources and Energy. We do so because the Report fails to appreciate the crisis that we are facing as a country. We have made recommendations to the portfolio committee before which was adopted by this House but were all ignored and that is why we are in this crisis.
We are supposed to be making stronger recommendations to change things. We were supposed to be recommending the cancellation of purchasing of power of the agreement signed with independent power producers especially on renewable energy that are killing Eskom. It is not a matter that must be negotiated. We were supposed to be recommending the normalising of coal prices at Eskom, that which is recommended by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa. We were supposed to be calling for the arrest of people including former Ministers who were involved in illegal sale of the country's oil that was sold at a price far much lower than its value. We know them, we saw them and they are here.
We were supposed to be recommending that PetroSA be given its rightful share in the Mossel Bay discovery as part of the step towards breaking the concentration of market in the hands of only six oil foreign-owned refineries. All these recommendations ... [Time expired.] All these recommendations are not included in the Report despite the contribution that the committee made in the fifth Parliament. The EFF rejects this budget. Thank you.