Ms Deidre Carter

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Deidre Carter

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • Transport Department of Transport, PRASA, Railway Safety Regulator on their 2015/16 Annual Reports with Auditor General input
    11 Oct 2016

    Annual Report Railway Safety Regulator
    Annual Report Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa 

    The Portfolio Committee met to hear presentations from the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) on the audit outcomes of the Department of Transport (DoT) and its entities for 2015/16 financial year. The portfolio’s overall outcomes had ...

  • Transport Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Amendment Bill [B38-2015]: public hearings
    6 Sep 2016

    The Portfolio Committee on Transport (PC) held a public hearing on the written submissions to the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Amendment Bill. Presentations were made by Ms Alta Swanepoel, a specialist in the field of road traffic and transport legislation, South African Taxi, TASIMA, the Justice Project ...

  • Transport PRASA inquiry: day 2
    31 Aug 2016

    The Committee met the previous day to be briefed by the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA). However, as the Committee had not exhausted all issues to do with the Agency the Chairperson allowed Committee members to continue on from the previous day’s questions. The presentation on Metrorail service ...

  • Transport Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) on its performance Day 1
    30 Aug 2016

    The Passenger Rail Agency (PRASA) had achieved 45% of its targets for 2016/17. Some of the action plans to address challenges were: recovery plans for rolling stock and infrastructure; combining work of PRASA Rail Engineering and PRASA Tech to collectively address infrastructure and rolling stock; security action revolved around interventions ...

  • Transport Vaalputs Road from Pelindaba petition: Department of Transport input
    23 Aug 2016

    The background to this matter is that nuclear waste is transported on a road from Pelindaba to Springbok and from there to Vaalputs where it is stored. The road from Pelindaba to Springbok had been upgraded but not the road from Springbok to Vaalputs. The communities in five settlements near ...

  • Standing Committee on Auditor General Committee Reports on AGSA Annual Report, AGSA Strategic Plan and Oversight Visit to Gauteng
    16 Mar 2016

    Documents Handed Out: 
    Committee Minutes: 6 November 2015
    Committee Report: Oversight Visit Report to Gauteng
    Committee Report on the AGSA 2014/15 Annual Report
    Committee Report on the AGSA Strategic Plan and Budget 2014 - 2019
    [All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]

    The Committee met to adopt ...

  • Transport PRASA implementation of Auditor-General findings
    8 Mar 2016

    Passenger Rail South Africa (PRASA) presented the remedial action taking to resolve the Auditor-General findings contained in the PRASA 2014/15 Annual Report, particularly irregular and fruitless and wasteful expenditure. The Chairperson of PRASA, Dr Popo Molefe, and Mr Nathi Khena, Acting PRASA Group Chief Executive Director led the presentation.

    The ...

  • Transport Department of Transport on its 3rd Quarter 2015/16 performance
    1 Mar 2016

    The Department of Transport third quarter performance analysis showed a decline in achieved targets, compared to the second quarter, for all seven programmes. Performance per programme was reported on and notable Quarter 3 achievements and non-achievements for every programme were identified. Non-achievements and red flag areas were heavily concentrated in ...

  • Transport Department of Transport on its 3rd Quarter performance: postponed
    16 Feb 2016

    The briefing from the Department of Transport on its third quarter expenditure for 2015/16 was removed from the agenda after a proposal and recommendations from Members. Members strongly objected to receiving documents only at the start of the meeting. It was resolved to take up the matter with the Minister ...

  • Standing Committee on Auditor General Auditor-General on AGSA Strategic Plan 2016-2019; AGSA Debtors; 2015 Audit Outcomes
    6 Nov 2015

    The Auditor-General highlighted that there would be an escalation of debt owed to Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA), specifically by local government as well as increased competition for skilled labour in this period.

    He went through the Strategic Plan. The targets for some of its objectives were:
    • Demonstrate value-add auditing: ...