as a member of the police portfolio committee i_letter have found myself asking over the past weeks whether it is enough to achieve something that may at best be described as adequate is this how the fourth democratic parliament should be written up in our history books as adequate when the one hundred and thirty page glenister judgment was presented it was stated that only the constitutional court had the jurisdiction to decide whether parliament had failed to facilitate public involvement in the legislative process in an attempt to ensure that we did not fall foul of the constitutional court on this occasion the committee conducted public hearings and then with twenty one submissions twelve of them substantive and all but one calling for the unit to be removed from the sa police service the committee proceeded to ignore them one must ask why