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NCOP Finance
KwaZulu-Natal 2017/18 expenditure outcomes: Provincial Treasury
19 Jun 2018
The National Treasury reported that in KZN there were overall fiscal risks pertaining to education and health, and high accruals. Capacity enhancements, better planning and project execution skills had to be sought by departments to reduce under-spending, especially of conditional grants. Thirteen out of 15 departments had under-spent, largely in ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Lunga Kona Petition Report & Transkei Road Transport Corporation (TRTC) Petition
13 Jun 2018
Lunga Kona petition report was adopted with amendments.
On the Transkei Road Transport Corporation Petition, the issue before the Committee was non-payment of benefits. Legal opinion stated that the issue was the Province agreed to employ all of those people. Even though the case happened, Umanyano did not fulfill its ...
NCOP Appropriations
Provincial Disaster Grant performance 2017/18 Quarter 4: hearing; with COGTA Minister
13 Jun 2018
The Committee heard that the disaster relief grant had been introduced during the 2010/11 financial year and was administered by the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCOG), in consultation with the National Treasury. The main objective of the grant was to respond to the immediate needs after a disaster had occurred ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties NCOP
Political Party Funding Bill: National Treasury & IEC briefing
7 Jun 2018
The Independent Electoral Commission and National Treasury briefed the Committee on the Political Party Funding Bill [B33-2017].
The National Treasury explained that the costing of the envisaged structure is to be financed following the phased-in approach with about R20 million required. The compensation of employees would cost about R5.5 million, ...
NCOP Appropriations
Human Settlements Grant 2017/18 Quarter 4 performance: hearing, with Deputy Minister
6 Jun 2018
The Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDG) allocation for the 2017/18 financial year amounted to R19.9 billion, which was a R1.6 billion increase over the previous year. The grant was allocated through the HSDG allocation formula approved by the Human Settlements Ministers and Members of Executive Council (MINMEC) and National Treasury. ...
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Extension of Security of Tenure Amendment Bill [B24B-2015]: finalisation
5 Jun 2018
The Committee approved the Extension of Security of Tenure Amendment Bill.
Prior to that, the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform briefed the Committee on the seven amendments proposed to the principal Act, which included the following:
NCOP Finance
Northern Cape & Limpopo 2017/18 expenditure outcomes
29 May 2018
Documents handed out: Committee Research unit: Comment on expenditure outcomes (to Members only)
National Treasury reported that the major risk in the Limpopo Department of Health (DoH) was continually high accruals. In Education there was a high attrition rate of educators, but still a problem with excess educators, and ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties NCOP
Technical Team briefing; Committee Programme
24 May 2018
The Ad Hoc Committee on Funding of Political Parties met briefly to approve the programme for processing the Political Party Funding Bill. The programme included two half-days for oral submissions on the Bill. The intention was to have a final meeting on 27 June 2018 to adopt the Bill, but ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on Contract Extension of Parliament Budget Office Director
24 May 2018
The Standing and Select Committees on Finance and Appropriations met to consider and adopt the Report of the Contract Extension of Parliamentary Budget Office Director. Members were taken through processes surrounding this action. The proposal was that the contract of the Director be extended for three months after the 2019 ...
NCOP Health and Social Services
Department of Home Affairs 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan; with Minister and Deputy Minister
22 May 2018
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) met with the Select Committee of Social Services to present its last annual performance plan for the Fifth Parliament, and its Budget Vote 5.
The Minister of Home Affairs reported on the challenges the DHA had faced and what its achievements and strengths were. ...