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Standing Committee on Appropriations
2014 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: hearings with NUMSA, Equal Education and Public Service Accountability Monitor
5 Nov 2014
The briefing by NUMSA stated that MTBPS priorities were not in line with the main problems in the country. Negative real growth meant that expenditures did not keep up with inflation. Declined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth coupled with lower real expenditure growth meant that it was not a counter ...
Finance Standing Committee
2014 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: briefing by Minister of Finance, with Deputy Minister in attendance
23 Oct 2014
The Minister remarked that the budget policy framework and spending priorities of government for the following three years was produced under trying and unenviable conditions. The Director General explained that the global outlook remained uneven, and that the South African current account and fiscal deficits caused the country to depend ...
Health
Analysis of Department of Health's budget, spending patterns & recommendations: Financial & Fiscal Commission briefing
21 Oct 2014
The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) briefed the Committee on the Department of Health’s (DoH) budget and spending patterns after explaining their function and mandate. Targets for 2013/14 were outlined according to the National Development Plan (NDP) and the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Health sector outputs from 2009 were ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Review of Committee Strategic Plan and Method of Work: AGSA briefing
21 Oct 2014
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met for a review of its strategic plan and its method of work. A delegation from the Office of the Auditor-General of South Africa interacted with Members of the Committee and a Parliament Researcher for the review, advising how the SCOPA should carry out ...
Health
Department of Health on its 2013/14 Annual Report; Audit Outcomes: AGSA briefing
15 Oct 2014
The Committee was briefed by the Auditor-General South Africa on their findings on the National Department of Health (NDOH), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) and the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS). The presentation spoke of poor financial management, poor performance reporting and weak areas, ...
Ad Hoc Committee - President's Submission in response to Public Protector's Report on Nkandla
Public Protector's Report on Nkandla security upgrades
25 Sep 2014
After adoption of the minutes of the previous meeting, the only matter arising was the legal opinion regarding the Committee’s ability to access the Cabinet Memorandum of 2003. The Parliamentary Legal Advisor indicated that Constitution empowers the Committee to subpoena anyone to come before it to give oral testimony or ...
Health
Medical Innovation Bill: briefing by Mr N Singh MP; Department of Health 1st Quarter Performance
17 Sep 2014
Mr Narend Singh, M.P., made a presentation to the Committee on the Medical Innovation Bill. He said that cancer was a growing concern in the world and was predicted to affect one in three people in the near future. He expressed concern over how billions of dollars were being spent ...
Finance Standing Committee
Processing of Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: input from National Treasury, FFC and Parliamentary Budget Office
16 Sep 2014
The Joint Meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Finance and the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations heard briefings from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) and National Treasury.
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) presentation covered the legislative mandate of the Medium Term ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Health on 1st Quarter Performance; Department of Cooperative Governance on Municipal Infrastructure Grant, Community Work Programme & 1st Quarter Performance
10 Sep 2014
The Department of Health (DoH) briefed the Standing Committee and Members of the Health Portfolio Committee and the Chairperson on expenditure for the first quarter. The Committees were told that there was slow spending on the National Health Insurance (NHI) grant. Major contributors to underspending of conditional grants were the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Transport on 1st Quarter Expenditure Performance, with Deputy Minister
9 Sep 2014
The Select Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Department of Transport (DOT) on its first quarter expenditure patterns for the 2014/15 financial year. Details were given of the expenditure, broken down by programme and by economic classification. The Department had a total budget for the year of R48.727 billion, ...