1. The Minister of Public Works should introduce in Parliament the outstanding legislation in the 2012/13 financial year, including amendments as proposed by the cidb on the cidb regulations that have already been submitted to the DPW. 2. The Minister of Public Works should ensure that all of the measures according to the annual performance plan of the Department have a baseline for easy monitoring. 3. The Minister of Public Works should come and present before the Committee the Department of Public Works' strategy on fraud and corruption. 4. The Committee recommended that the internal audit controls within the Department of Public Works should be improved. 5. The Committee recommended that the use of consultants should be reduced in the national, provincial, regional Departments of Public Works and in all the four entities reporting to Public Works. It recommends that functions currently outsourced to consultants should be built in-house so as to ensure that the required skilled are available after the consultants complete their contracts. The contracts entered to with the consultants should be properly managed and the mandate given to the consultants should be clearly stipulated in terms of the duration of the contract and skills transfer. 6. The Committee should be clarified by the Minister of Public Works on how the planned transformation of the IDT will be funded. 7. The Committee recommended that the IDT should tighten its monitoring and evaluation processes as this has been identified as the weakest point through its business case and findings of the Committee on its oversight findings. 8. The Committee recommended that the entities should have people living with disabilities on their staff complement. 9. Agrment South Africa should assess viability over time and perform durability tests on the vela steel technology used to build schools in the Eastern Cape areas of Willowvale and Umgwili. 10. The Minister of Public Works should ensure that the national and provincial departments as well as municipalities comply with the cidb regulations; this can be done through legislation. 11. The Committee urges the Minister of Public Works to ensure a successful turn-around within a short space of time. The Department of Public Works needs to reclaim its mandate of providing state accommodation and buildings on behalf of client departments together with its entities, i.e. the Independent Development Trust in the building of schools on behalf of the Department of Basic Education.