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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Standing Committee on Appropriations Legacy Report
20 Mar 2019
The Committee reviewed, discussed and amended their Legacy Report. It was highlighted that the Committee had to exercise monitoring over Parliament’s budget using a monitoring instrument, that this Committee was an overseer of all Committees and departments, and that this Committee had to validate information by benchmarking. It was stated ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Public Audit Excess Bill: adoption
13 Mar 2019
Documents handed out: Draft committee report on the Public Audit Excess Fee Bill.
The Committee agreed unanimously to a Bill which aims to overcome difficulties the Auditor General has in securing payment for audits of some government entities which are financially distressed.
While national and provincial government departments have to ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Integrated Financial Management System: National Treasury briefing
6 Mar 2019
Documents: Nexus Forensic Investigation Report
The Committee was briefed on the findings of the Nexus forensic investigation into the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS). Treasury said the investigation arose from an audit undertaken by the Treasury internal audit committee. A draft report was completed on 2 July 2018 and the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Jobs Fund: National Treasury briefing
5 Mar 2019
National Treasury presented a performance update on the Employment Creation Facilitation Fund (the Jobs Fund). The Fund was created in 2011 with a target of creating 150 thousand permanent jobs. By December 2018, the Fund had created 170 thousand permanent jobs, 55 thousand short term jobs, 20 thousand internships and ...
Finance Standing Committee
2019 Budget: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
26 Feb 2019
Parliamentary Budget Office - Pre-budget discussion 2019; 2019 Budget Speech; 2018 MTBPS
The Finance and Appropriations Committees met jointly for a briefing by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on the 2019 Budget. This was a follow-up meeting with MPs.
The PBO said the 2019 Budget priorities included the ...
Finance Standing Committee
2019 Budget: Minister of Finance briefing
21 Feb 2019
The Finance and Appropriations Committees met jointly for a briefing by the Minister of Finance on the 2019 Budget.
The Minister of Finance emphasised the need for the public to understand that there is no endless supply of cash in government. The biggest risk ...
Finance Standing Committee
Pre-Budget 2019: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
19 Feb 2019
The Finance and Appropriations Committees met with jointly with the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) for a pre-Budget briefing.
The PBO pointed out that during the State of the Nation Address; the President highlighted the strategic direction for the budget in terms of linking priorities for 2019/20 with the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Deviations & expansions in 2018/19 Quarter 2 & 3: Office of Chief Procurement Officer
13 Feb 2019
The highlighted that entities must only deviate from inviting competitive bids in cases of emergency and sole supplier status. An emergency procurement may occur when there is a serious and unexpected situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment which calls an agency to action and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Quarter 2 & 3 performance; Jobs Fund Update; Committee Annual Report
12 Feb 2019
The Committee met with National Treasury for a briefing on quarter three spending outcomes of government departments and public entities for 2018/19, and an update on the Jobs Fund.
National Treasury said major contributors to underspending for the first nine months of 2018/19 were the following departments: Cooperative Governance and ...
Water and Sanitation
Municipal water debt: Department; COGTA; Treasury; SALGA update with Minister
14 Nov 2018
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) provided details of the municipal debt to water boards, and said an Inter-Ministerial Task Team (IMTT) had been established to devise a plan to resolve the outstanding debt in more structured way. The Committee was told that the municipalities owed a total of ...