Adoption of Committee minutes and Quarter Two Programme

Meeting report

Consideration of draft minutes

The Committee was taken through the minutes briefly since Members had already seen them.

Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Mr I Morolong (ANC) moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr G Skosana (ANC).

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Ms M Mabiletsa (ANC) moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Skosana.

Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Ms Mabiletsa moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Skosana.

Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Mr Skosana moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Morolong.

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Mr Morolong moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Skosana.

Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Mr Skosana moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Ms Mabiletsa.

Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Ms Mabiletsa moved for the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Skosana.

Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Ms Mabiletsa moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Skosana.

Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Mr Skosana said that his initials had been captured incorrectly as “GI” – they should have been captured as "GJ."

Mr Skosana moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Ms Mabiletsa.

Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Ms Mabiletsa moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Morolong.

Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Mr Skosana moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Ms Mabiletsa.

Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Mr Skosana moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Ms Mabiletsa.

Wednesday, 9 February 2022
Ms Mabiletsa moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Skosana.

Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Mr Skosana moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Ms Mabiletsa.

Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Ms Mabiletsa moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Skosana.

Thursday, 17 February 2022
Mr Morolong moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Skosana.

Thursday, 24 February 2022
Mr Skosana moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Ms Mabiletsa.

Tuesday, 1 March 2022
Mr Skosana moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Morolong.

Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Mr Morolong moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Ms Mabiletsa.

Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Ms Mabiletsa moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Skosana.

Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Mr Morolong moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Mr Skosana.

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Mr Skosana moved the adoption of the minutes and was seconded by Ms Mabiletsa.

Proposed second term programme

The Chairperson said that the Committee was supposed to be doing oversight visits that week, which would have included visits to National Treasury (NT), the Land Bank and the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC). Because of the [change in] parliamentary programme, the Committee had been directed to put the visits on hold, so that it could focus on what was happening in Parliament that week.

The Committee was taken through the proposed second term programme.

Mr Morolong wanted to check if the Committee was able to adopt the programme with the proviso that parliamentary officials would have to look for an opening for the oversight visits. While it was understandable that the Committee could not conduct oversight, he did not think it should entirely abandon it. He thought that the Committee needed to find ways of looking into the visits within the programme.

The Chairperson replied that at the top of the programme, it stated that there was an oversight visit to the Treasury on 20 April, the Land Bank visit would be the following day (21 April), and the FFC visit would be on 22 April 2022.

Mr Morolong said that he had thought the visits were in March, but his question was covered by the Chairperson’s reply.

Mr Morolong moved the adoption of the proposed programme, and Ms Mabiletsa seconded its adoption.

Mr Allan Wicomb, Committee Secretary, said that there was a letter from the Speaker of Parliament regarding the FFC remuneration, which had arrived sometime the previous week. The letter said that administratively, the report the Committee had adopted had contained an error with a date. He added the following context to the report:

The resolution taken by the House on 10 September 2021 was on the President’s determination of the remuneration of the members of the FFC. The report adopted by the Committee contained the date 1 April 2021, which should have been 1 April 2020. The House had not referred the matter back to the Committee, but it highlighted that the report contained an error. Mr Wicomb had discussed that with Adv Frank Jenkins, Senior Parliamentary Legal Advisor, and the advice Adv Jenkins gave was that there was no need for the matter to be referred to the Committee. The Secretariat just needed to highlight that the report contained an error. It would retract the report adopted by the Committee, and then change the date from 1 April 2021 to 1 April 2020. There were no financial implications for anything because the notice was for a 0% increase in the salaries of the FFC commissioners.

The Chairperson asked that the Committee note for record purposes that the date in the report had been changed from 1 April 2021, to 1 April 2020.

Mr Wicomb said that there were no announcements. The meeting was the final Committee meeting for the current term. If the oversight visit was approved by the House Chair and the Chief Whip, the next time the Members would meet would be at Treasury’s offices.

The meeting was adjourned.