MPs unhappy with 'reckless' De Lille's plan to close infrastructure agency

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The entity has been struggling to pay salaries and had to be bailed out by De Lille's department several times since last year.

“I am told that the IDT remains unable to meet its financial obligations and continues to require the department's financial support to cover operational costs,” she said.

“Having been informed of both the financial insolvency of the IDT, as well as the failure of attempts to find a financially sustainable business model that would result in its turn-around, it would be fiscally irresponsible and irregular for me to do so,” De Lille wrote at the time. The action of the minister was reckless. She cannot do what she did. We are the committee, we approve the budget of the department and she accounts to us.De Lille will be called later this month to answer for “sidelining” parliament.

Mashele also spoke about how the IDT has “an illegal board” presiding over it and that nothing was being done to address that.

 

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Aunty Pat should review this portfolio otherwise her political career will be tainted. Being on opposition bench & preside over ruling& governing party ministry is not easy.

So for once the correct decision was made and everybody is on her case because she didn’t follow procedure ?

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