The Industrial Policy Action Plan is a priority policy instrument of Government over which the Committee has exercised its oversight vigorously since August 2009. This influences a more focussed IPAP2 that was more tightly aligned with the New Economic Growth Path and finally IPAP3 which prioritised core industries and manufacturing enterprises to accelerate the employment creation and economic growth in South Africa and the region. Each year the Committee focussed on different issues beginning with steel as an essential input to industrialisation then infrastructure broadly. This year in 2012 the Committee focussed on the constraints of electricity, ports and administered prices costs impose on IPAP, and the critical need for beneficiation, the measures currently in place but not implemented and measures that may require legislative action.