With reference to a presentation on the 2021-22 audit outcomes to the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, wherein the Auditor-General made the finding that payments were made in advance to implementing agents under the Community Works Programme, without evidence of goods and services having been received due to ineffective internal controls for approving and processing payments, what total amount was paid in irregular advance fees to the implementing agents;
(2) whether any steps have been taken to recover the irregular payments; if not, why not; if so, what total amount has been recovered;
(3) whether any of the implementing agents have been blacklisted from doing business with her department; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?