5. The Committee is concerned about the impact that the commissions of inquiry have on the budget of the Department, as the Department is expected to fund Commissions from its budget and recover the money at a later stage. The ideal situation is to have a separate budget for commissions of inquiry or to reimburse the Department from the national fiscus as soon as possible. It is not clear to the Committee if the Department has been reimbursed or whether it is funding these Commissions from its baseline and it requests further clarity on this, in writing, by 19 July 2013.