7. The Committee remains firmly of the view, which it has expressed in previous reports that it is not enough to engage on performance annually: monitoring needs to be an ongoing process. However, this year the Committee's legislative workload precluded it from meeting as regularly as it had intended with the Department and other institutions to ascertain their performance against predetermined objectives, as well as related expenditure. The Committee has already considered and reported in detail on the respective strategic plans and budget proposals of the Justice Department, NPA, Legal Aid South Africa, SIU, SAHRC and PP for 2012/13. During both that process and that of the BRRR 2011, the Committee made extensive reporting requests on specific issues which it had identified as requiring further monitoring. The Department and other institutions have provided substantive responses, which form part of this report. In addition, expenditure for the Vote has been monitored.