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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Auditor General South Africa on the 2014/15 sector outcomes
15 Apr 2016
The Ventilated Improved Pit (VIP) toilets which the Department of Human Settlements had built were found to have so many structural defects that one had to hold on to the seat in order not to fall off, and in one instance, half a plastic ginger beer bottle had been passed ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Progress with its efficiency drives: Office of the Chief Procurement Officer briefing
13 Apr 2016
Members again lamented the late submission of the presentation document, which meant they were unable to fact check or facilitate public participation on the information. National Treasury apologised and the Committee resolved to take the matter up with the Director General of National Treasury.
The Office of the Chief Procurement ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury on its 3rd Quarter 2015/16 performance
12 Apr 2016
Members were critical of the fact that once again they had received the presentation documents late, and the National Treasury apologised and undertook that this would not happen again. National Treasury (NT) then presented the expenditure for the third quarter (Q3) of 2015/16. Total voted expenditure was R513.9 billion. R345 ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Development Plan alignment with Medium Term Strategic Framework & progress 2014/15: Parliamentary Budget Office assessment
5 Apr 2016
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) reviewed the NDP in order to assess where it was in the achievement of its targets. The NDP was the guiding framework for budgetary allocations and South Africa's planning framework. There was no oversight of the NDP by Parliament at present. Perhaps it was time ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill [B2-2016]: adoption of Committee Report
15 Mar 2016
The Committee considered and adopted its Report on the Division of Revenue Bill.
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill [B2-2016]: public hearings
11 Mar 2016
At the outset, the Chairperson allowed time for the Democratic Alliance to air its views on the process that the Committee was following. The DA had raised issues in a previous meeting that it did not believe that the presentations were in line with either the Constitution or the Parliamentary ...
Finance Standing Committee
2016 Budget: Public hearings
2 Mar 2016
The joint sitting of the Standing and Select Committees on Finance heard submissions from six entities on the Revenue Laws Amendment Bill. The entities were the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the Witwatersrand University’s School of Economics and Business Science, the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA), ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2016 Division of Revenue Bill: South African Local Government Association comments & input from National Treasury
2 Mar 2016
The meeting began with deliberations about the legality of the meeting itself. Members of the DA, including Shadow Minister of Finance, Mr D Maynier (who was sitting in on the meeting), argued that the meeting was inconsistent with the Constitution as it was out of place in terms of the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill [B2-2016]: National Treasury briefing
26 Feb 2016
At the outset, the Democratic Alliance Members raising concerns whether this meeting was properly called, in terms of the Constitution and the Money Bills Amendment Procedure and Related Matters Act (the Money Bills Act). They asserted that Parliament should only consider the Division of Revenue Bill after the adoption of ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
MTBPS & Adjustments Appropriation Bill [B28-15]: committee reports; DA proposal to amend Adjustments Appropriation Bill
25 Nov 2015
The Committee Report on the 2015 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement was adopted.
The Democratic Alliance submitted a proposal to amend the Adjustments Appropriation Bill, The motivation for the proposed amendment was the conviction that the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) could not fund the zero fee increase ...