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Finance Standing Committee
Pre-Budget 2019: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
19 Feb 2019
The Finance and Appropriations Committees met with jointly with the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) for a pre-Budget briefing.
The PBO pointed out that during the State of the Nation Address; the President highlighted the strategic direction for the budget in terms of linking priorities for 2019/20 with the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Deviations & expansions in 2018/19 Quarter 2 & 3: Office of Chief Procurement Officer
13 Feb 2019
The highlighted that entities must only deviate from inviting competitive bids in cases of emergency and sole supplier status. An emergency procurement may occur when there is a serious and unexpected situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment which calls an agency to action and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Quarter 2 & 3 performance; Jobs Fund Update; Committee Annual Report
12 Feb 2019
The Committee met with National Treasury for a briefing on quarter three spending outcomes of government departments and public entities for 2018/19, and an update on the Jobs Fund.
National Treasury said major contributors to underspending for the first nine months of 2018/19 were the following departments: Cooperative Governance and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Reports on 2018 MTBPS; Adjustments Appropriation Bill & Special Appropriation Bill
27 Nov 2018
The Committee met to consider and adopt the draft reports on the 2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement; the Adjustments Appropriations Bill B35-2018; and the Special Appropriations Bill B36-2018.
Members considered the draft 2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), and apart from corrections to grammar and style, discussed whether ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill: DBE hearing
23 Nov 2018
The Committee met for a briefing with the Department of Basic Education on the 2018 Adjustments Appropriation Bill, in the presence of the Minister.
The Department expressed its readiness to effectively and efficiently spend any additional allocations as per the 2018 budget adjustments process. There were currently no virements needing ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2018 MTBPS; Adjustments Appropriation Bill & SAX; Special Appropriation Bill: public hearings
23 Nov 2018
2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS)
MTPBS Speech & Money Bills
The Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations held joint public hearings on the 2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement; the Adjustments Appropriation Bill; and Special Appropriation Bill., COSATU, the Budget Justice Coalition (BJC), UNICEF, FairPlay Movement, and the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill: Department of Water & Sanitation hearing
22 Nov 2018
The Minister of Water and Sanitation in his overview told the Committee that the DWS has inadequate financial management as many of its senior executives had resigned. DWS had committed to Parliament to have a turnaround plan as soon as possible. However, this has not been finalised as anticipated. The ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
SAA on R5 billion Special Appropriation Bill; Adjustments Appropriation Bill
21 Nov 2018
The 2018 Special Appropriation Bill for allocating R5bn to SAA was presented by Treasury. The R5bn would only be used to assist SAA to pay guaranteed debts that are coming due on 30 November 2018 but SAA would still be insolvent. It will continue making losses until 2020/21. SAA's identified ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill 2018: Department of Transport motivation
21 Nov 2018
The Department of Transport (DoT) explained and motivated for adjustments to its 2018/19 appropriation. It explained that the additional allocation of R33 million was for the City of Cape Town for Phase 2A of MyCiti Bus Rapid Transit System infrastructure project. The R33 million will be used to finalise the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Maintenance devolution from Public Works to Defence, with Public Works Minister
20 Nov 2018
The Appropriations Standing Committee had resolved in September 2018 that an inter-ministerial task team be set up to consider handover of the infrastructure maintenance and refurbishment function from the Department of Public Works to the Department of Defence. The Ministers of Public Works and Defence considered the matter and directed ...