(1)Whether, considering the fact that her department is the custodian of the State’s 81 575 buildings and is therefore responsible to ensure that such fixed assets are maintained in good clean condition, she has found that her department has ceded any of its responsibilities to government departments that utilise such buildings and whose line functions and areas of expertise do not include the knowledge and/or skills to conduct the maintainance of such buildings effectively; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, (a) what are the reasons that her department ceded such responsibilities to the specified departments, (b) what is the nature of maintenance thus ceded, (c) what is the limit for each project and (d) how does her department intend to prevent the possible lack of effective and timeous maintenance by such departments leading to the further deterioration of the buildings and therefore increasing the existing maintenance backlog;
(2) whether she will make a statement on the matter?