Thank you, hon member. In fact, there must be reports ...]
... as soon as the portfolio committee is ready to receive them on a regular basis...
... ukuze kwazeke ukuthi kukuphi manje ngoba ngeke usuke nje uthi kulezi khungo zokuhlunyeleliswa kwezimilo eziyisishagalombili okuyizona ezineziboshwa eziningi, ngingathi nje izi-47 000. Uma ungasuka uthi, iyagcina ngoMfumfu 31 noma ngoMasingana 31 kodwa ubungalungisile kahle ukuthi ... (Translation of isiZulu paragraph follows.)
[... so that we know where the process is now, because at these 8 correctional centres which have more inmates, approximately 47 000, you cannot just say the contract will be terminated in October 31 or January 31 without a plan in place of ...]
... about what is going to happen the following day: They have dinner tonight, then you cut the service, and what will then happen for breakfast? All facilities and assets belong to the existing service providers. The information we were dealing with yesterday was not accurate in that respect. Some of those assets belong to them.
Kuyalungiswa ukuze kuhleleke ukuthi ... [We are putting measures in place so that ...]
... by the time they withdraw we will be ready to provide. The agreement is there, and we are now in the process of doing that. I think the portfolio committee needs to give itself the opportunity to receive the report that it commissioned.