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Public Works and Infrastructure
Committee Report on Department of Public Works Budget
5 May 2015
The Committee on Public Works unanimously adopted the Budget vote Report, Vote 11 of the Department of Public Works with recommendations.
Members made the following recommendations:
The Committee be updated on the assets register
Any entity involved in construction should look at the social perspective of the building.
The Department ...
Health
Committee Report on Department of Health 2015/16 budget
29 Apr 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Health met to adopt the draft report on the Strategic Plan (2015/16 to 2019/20), Annual Performance Plan92015/16 to 2017/18) and Budget vote 16 of the Department of Health.
The Committee made a number of suggestions for changes to the wording, grammar and typographical errors in the ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Committee's Draft Report: Department of Mineral Resources Strategic Plan & Budget adopted
29 Apr 2015
The Committee met to discuss its draft report on the 2015-16 budget and strategic plan of the Department of Mineral Resources, as well as the Committee Programme for the next few months, and the minutes from the last two committee meetings.
Members pointed out several grammatical errors in the report. ...
Health
District hospitals and clinics in Limpopo: Availability of medicines, equipment, role of health district officers: Public Service Commission briefing
22 Apr 2015
The Public Service Commission (PSC) reported to the Committee that in the 2012/13 financial year it had conducted inspections into eight hospitals in six districts in Limpopo and Mpumalanga to investigate the availability of medicines and medical equipment, and the role of district health offices. A PSC Commission had led ...
Health
Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) on Annual Performance Plan & Strategic Plan 2015
21 Apr 2015
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) presented its Strategic plan, Annual Performance Plan and Budget. CMS was created in terms of the Medical Schemes Act 131 of 1998. It regulated the private healthcare industry medical schemes, administrators, brokers and managed care providers. It aimed to protect the interests of the ...
Health
Department of Health on its 2nd and 3rd quarterly reports; DPME on Health Department performance outcomes
18 Mar 2015
The Department of Health (DoH) briefed the Committee on its performance in Quarters 2 and 3, followed by an evaluation report presented by the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), explaining how it categorised performance, and that it was done to assess how the sector as a whole was ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources on its Strategic/ Annual Performance Plans 2015/16
18 Mar 2015
The Committee was briefed by the Parliamentary researcher and content advisor on the issues in the 2014 Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR), and by the Auditor General of South Africa and the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) on the 2015/16Annual Performance Plan of the Department.
The 2014 BRRR had ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Agrément South Africa Bill [B3-2015]: deliberations on how Committee will process Bill
10 Mar 2015
The Committee Researcher briefed the Committee on issues for consideration arising from the Agrément South Africa Bill. A historical overview of the entity was first provided, outlining its mandate, the challenges it faced and solutions being implemented.
With regard to the Agrément South Africa Bill, the researcher directed the Committee ...
Health
Traditional and Natural Health Alliance submission on Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill: Department & legal advisors response
4 Mar 2015
The Department of Health and Parliamentary Legal Advisors presented their responses to a further submission, heard in the previous week, from the Traditional and Natural Health Alliance (TNHA). The Department of Health (DoH) clarified the definition of traditional medicine, and how the regulation of the products, practice and profession of ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works on lease portfolio and performance of Property Management Trading Entity
3 Mar 2015
The Department of Public Works (DPW) briefed the Committee on the Property Management and Trading Entity (PMTE), focussing on its lease portfolio. The PMTE had been in the news lately for a variety of reasons and the briefing was related to the DPW’s endeavours to deal with the issues related ...