Emma Louise Powell

National Assembly

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About Emma Louise Powell

2020 committee attendance as mp

60% attendance rate

Attended 3 meetings out of 5

2019 committee attendance as mp

86% attendance rate

Attended 18 meetings out of 21

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

Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation — SONA implications for Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, with Deputy Minister — 10 Mar 2020
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation — Water provision to Limpopo residents — 3 Mar 2020
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation — Status of housing provision in Gauteng: National & Provincial Department briefing; with Deputy Minister — 18 Feb 2020
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation — Community Schemes Ombud Services; Estate Agency Affairs Board progress reports — 3 Dec 2019
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation — DWS Turnaround Strategy performance: response to Committee Questions; with Deputy Minister — 26 Nov 2019

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 Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)

Formerly

4th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Western Cape Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

Committee appearances

Community Schemes Ombud Services & Estate Agency Affairs Board on AGSA audit findings and other matters 3 Dec 2019

Ms E Powell (DA) said that section32(2)(c) of the current Act obliges estate agents to pay the interest from their trust accounts into the EAAB. This provision was omitted from the new Property Practitioners Act. Given that this cannot be remedied through regulations, how does the Board intend ...
Department of Water and Sanitation Quarter 2 performance: follow-up briefing 26 Nov 2019

Ms E Powell (DA) responded by pointing out two of the municipalities in the Western Cape were run by Mr M Tseki’s party. She asked if there was an indication of when the annual report would be tabled because she was concerned that some of the AG’s findings ...
Department of Human Settlements & Department of Water and Sanitation 2019 July to September performance 19 Nov 2019

The Chairperson conveyed apologies from the Minister, Deputy Minister and Ms E Powell (DA), and invited the Departmental officials to make their presentation.
Turnaround strategy & War on Leaks project: Department briefing 12 Nov 2019

The Chairperson accepted an apology from the Office of the Minister and Deputy Minister, Ms E Powell (DA) and Mr S August (GOOD)
Municipal Water Debt solutions; with Deputy Ministers 5 Nov 2019

Ms E Powell (DA) asked for clarity on the IMTT. Despite the IMTT being set up since 2017, last year municipal debt accrued to R1.7 billion and this year it reached R1.8 billion. The IMTT came up with a number of recommendations. Apart from the high level objectives ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation 24 Dec 2019

Whether she established a committee to advise her on the appointment of the interim board of the Social Housing Regulatory Authority as required by section 9(2)(b) of the Social Housing Act, Act 16 of 2008; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
Questions asked to the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation 24 Dec 2019

What are the details of each (a) position filled in (i) her Ministerial Office and (ii) the Water and Sanitation’s Ministerial National Rapid Response Task Team since 1 June 2019 and (b) person occupying each specified position in terms of (i) qualification (s) and (ii) remuneration?
Questions asked to the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation 24 Dec 2019

(1)Whether she will outline how the appointment of the former Minister of Social Development, Ms B O Dlamini, as chairperson of the interim board of the Social Housing Regulatory Authority will enhance the performance and reputation of the entity towards its goal of restructuring and developing new systems, policies ...

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

CLUSTER 2: SOCIAL SERVICES (Subject for Discussion) 20 Nov 2019

Hon Mister in the past financial year the City of Cape Town has ensured that it spends 89% of all capital budgets allocated for the informal settlements upgrading programme and 94% of the capital budget for the greater human settlements department which include public housing and housing development.
The City ...
QUESTIONS FOR ORAL REPLY SOCIAL SERVICES 11 Sep 2019

Hon Minister, Ugu district municipality in KwaZulu-Natal - which is facing near financial collapse - has been struggling to provide water to all of its villages for almost four years. They regularly default on paying their creditors, and have passed two consecutive unfunded annual budgets.
The DA has, for the last three ...

All Plenary Appearances

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