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Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Performing Animals Protection Amendment Bill [B9-2015]: public hearings
12 May 2015
Various stakeholders submitted their contributions to the Bill Amendment. Key issues that were raised were that the Bill was old and no longer fully served its purpose which was to protect the welfare and wellbeing of animals. There were issues on its lack of clarity in defining certain parameters and ...
Transport
Department of Transport, PRASA, SAMSA, SACAA, C-BRTA & Ports Regulator on their 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
21 Apr 2015
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Transport and its entities on their annual performance plans, strategic plans and budgets.
The Passenger Rail Agency of SA (PRASA) said it had embarked on systematic and sustained programmes to redress some of the legacy issues of under-investment in public transport infrastructure ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Performing Animals Protection Amendment Bill B9-2015, Plant Improvement Bill & Plant Breeders’ Rights Bill: briefings
14 Apr 2015
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) briefed the Portfolio Committee on three pieces of legislation that were currently being implemented – the Performing Animals Protection Amendment (PAPA) Bill, the Plant Improvement Bill and the Plant Breeders’ Rights Bill.
The Committee heard that sections 2 and 3 of the ...
Transport
Department of Transport on 2015/16 Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
24 Mar 2015
The Department of Transport (DoT) briefed the Committee on its Strategic and Annual Performance Plans (APP) 2015/16. The Minister said the Road Infrastructure Network had the potential to unlock the economic potential in South Africa, particularly in rural areas. The National Transport Master Plan 2050 (NATMAP) was part of the ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Hosting of Sedibeng Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality Gauteng Provincial Legislature by the JC on Ethics Committee
20 Mar 2015
Parliament established the first code of conduct for Members in 1997. It was first mainly around disclosure of financial interests. In 2014, Parliament established new a code of conduct. The Committee was mandated to monitor and oversee colleague’s interests. The code of conduct held Members accountable in their exercise of ...
Transport
Department of Transport response to Budgetary Review & Recommendations Report, in presence of Deputy Minister
17 Mar 2015
The Department of Transport (DoT), in the presence of the Deputy Minister, responded to the recommendations of the Committee in its last Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). Some of the comments had already been addressed in the DoT's Strategic Plan 2015-2020 and Annual Performance Plan for 2015/16, tabled in ...
Transport
Draft Road Accidents Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill; Legislative Programme, 2nd and 3rd quarter performance reports: Department of Transport briefings, in presence of Minister
3 Mar 2015
The Minister of Transport, Ms Dipuo Peters, was present for the first part of the meeting, when she briefed the Committee shortly on the fact that the Department was in the course of preparing the Road Accidents Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill, but it was not yet ready for presentation to ...
Transport
Department of Transport 2015 legislative programme briefing; Committee Programme
24 Feb 2015
The Committee convened to hear a presentation from the Department of Transport (DoT) on the legislative programme for 2015. It was noted that there were three Bills that had received priority and that
would hopefully be presented to Parliament in the first quarter of 2015. They were the Merchant Shipping ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Progress Report on Review of Parliament Rules: report back by sub-committee
4 Feb 2015
The chairperson of the subcommittee that had been considering the revised Rules of the National Assembly (the Rules) gave a progress report of the Rules review, informing the full Committee of areas of disagreement and areas where new and substantive changes were being proposed. He outlined the proposals for several ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Rules of the National Assembly: Chapters 1 to 9 preliminary review: Sub-committee report, debate on dress code and secret ballots
27 Jan 2015
The subcommittee considering the review of the Rules of the National Assembly (the Rules) continued with its work on chapters 1 to 9. The Committee's draft Report set out the preliminary positions, and in some cases set out options that the full Rules Committee would take a decision on which ...