Cilliers Brink

National Assembly

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About Cilliers Brink

Mr Cilliers Brink is an MP from the Democratic Alliance. He currently serves in the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs of Parliament. To read more about him, click here.

2020 committee attendance as mp

86% attendance rate

Attended 37 meetings out of 43

2019 committee attendance as mp

72% attendance rate

Attended 13 meetings out of 18

Attendance records reflect Committee not Plenary Attendance
Minister/Deputy Minister attendance is not compulsory.
MP attendance is compulsory unless an apology is given
MPs are recorded as absent whether they have, or have not submitted apologies.
This is not the official committee attendance record of Parliament.
Plenary Attendance is not made public by Parliament although it has been requested.

Recent meetings attended

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs — Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill: deliberations — 30 Jul 2020
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs — Gauteng Provincial Government on its COVID-19 response plan: postponed — 29 Jul 2020
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs — CoGTA on S139 interventions in municipalities; with Deputy Ministers — 28 Jul 2020
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs — City of Cape Town on outstanding matters; Outcome of investigation into law enforcement conduct during eviction; Human settlements plan; with Deputy Mayor — 17 Jul 2020
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs — Eastern Cape Provincial Government on its COVID-19 response plans — 16 Jul 2020

All meetings attended

DISCLAIMER: This information has been obtained via the Parliamentary Monitoring Group. PMG makes every effort to compile reliable and comprehensive information, but does not claim that the data is 100% accurate and complete.

Currently

Member at Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)

Formerly

33rd Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
10th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
67th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Provincial Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

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Committee appearances

Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill: deliberations 30 Jul 2020

Mr C Brink (DA) said two assurances had been given at the previous meeting. The first was that making Section 56 appointees permanent would not have adverse financial implications on municipal coffers. These officials would have their remuneration determined by ministerial regulation, and not by collective agreement. The second assurance ...
COGTA on S139 interventions in municipalities 28 Jul 2020

Mr C Brink (DA) said that the types of intervention needed to be well understood – especially the severity of an intended intervention. The failure of the municipality was placed under different Sections of 13.9 with the subsection (1)(c) being the most severe case of municipal failure. The 54-page ...
City of Cape Town on outstanding matters; Outcome of investigation into law enforcement conduct during eviction; Human settlements plan 17 Jul 2020

Mr C Brink (DA) said the DA was happy to allow the Report to go through to the National Assembly.
Department of Cooperative Governance 2020/21 Special Adjustments Budget; Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill 14 Jul 2020

Mr C Brink (DA) referred to the District Development Model (DDM) and asked for a clear definition of the One Plan Initiative and how it will affect the planning and budgeting process in municipalities. He asked for information on the lessons learnt by COGTA during the DDM pilot implementation in ...
Law enforcements actions during evictions in Cape Town: City of Cape Town & SAHRC briefings 3 Jul 2020

Mr C Brink (DA) expressed his interest in the investigation outcomes and agreed that evictions are unacceptable especially if they are forceful and have no consideration for human dignity. Evictions of illegal land occupants are happening across the country and he asked SALGA if there were guidance methods in place ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Deputy President 22 Jul 2020

1. Whether the Eskom Task Team has considered the plight of the communities of Bethal and eMzinoni in the Govan Mbeki Local Municipality in Mpumalanga who have had to endure daily power interruptions of up to 12 hours at a time since the end of March 2020; if not, will ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Finance 2 Jul 2020

(1)Whether, with reference to the presentation made to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on 3 December 2019, he has found that section 71 of the Municipal Financial Management Act, Act 56 of 2003, reports produced by some municipalities are inaccurate, be they overstated or understated; (2) (a) which ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Public Service and Administration 19 Jun 2020

(1)Whether his department will offer any form of Covid-19 financial or other relief to small businesses; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (2) whether the Covid-19 financial or other relief will only be allocated to qualifying small businesses according to the Broad-Based Black Economic ...

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

UNGQONGQOSHE KAHULUMENI WOKUBAMBISANA KANYE NEZINDABA 27 Nov 2019

Deputy Speaker, Minister obviously the national spatial development framework depends for its implementation on different spheres of government
reaching crucial agreements. One of the ways, municipalities can redress the injustices of the past is to bring people closer to work and social amenities. The City of Cape Town has identified ...
UNGQONGQOSHE KAHULUMENI WOKUBAMBISANA KANYE NEZINDABA 27 Nov 2019

Deputy Speaker, I understand the Minister's answer that intervention is foremost a provincial competence but if a provincial intervention fails or does not happen obviously the Minister must step in or at least engage with the matter.
The Eastern Cape provincial government has accused the council of the Nelson ...

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