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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Compensation Fund: Interrogation of 2013/14 Annual Report and Financial Statement, with Minister of Labour
2 Jun 2015
The Compensation Fund (CF) met with SCOPA to provide answers to questions posed by the Members on the Annual Report and generally the state the Fund finds itself in.
The Committee heard that a day before this hearing the Fund has suspended its Commissioner and other top management officials. There ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Correctional Services 2013/14 Annual Report & 3rd Party Funds; with Deputy Minister of Justice & Constitutional Development in attendance
27 May 2015
The Department of Justice and Correctional Services came before the Committee to answer questions on the 2013/2014 annual report and the issue of Third Party Funds.
The meeting was initially delayed following Members’ objections to the fact that senior Department officials were not present to engage with them on the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Water and Sanitation & Water Trading Entity: Interrogation of 2013/14 Annual Reports, with Minister present
26 May 2015
The meeting revolved around discussing and interrogating the qualified annual report for the Department of Water and Sanitation and its Water Trading Entity for 2013/2014.
This Department had received a qualified opinion for five years running, and the Committee was greatly concerned and frustrated with the same story being told ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Rules Subcommittee: Rules on SCOPA: input by SCOPA chairperson; Chapters 13-15 of National Assembly Rules; Programme
15 May 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts Chairperson presented proposals for the amendment of the Rules of the National Assembly governing the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. There were two major alterations: the inclusion of a sub-rule empowering the Standing Committee to hold provincial departments and entities directly accountable for funds ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Interrogation of Department of Public Works 2014 Annual Report and Financial Statements, in presence of Deputy Minister
25 Mar 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts, with the Deputy Minister of Public Works also present, interrogated the Annual Report and financial statements of the Department of Public Works (DPW) for the 2014 financial year. Engagement was centred around the qualified audit opinion in relation to the Property Management Trading Entity ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; Marine Living Resources Fund: hearings
17 Mar 2015
The Committee met to hear evidence pertaining to the annual reports and financial statements of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), as well as the Marine Living Resources Fund (MLRF).
In discussion on the DAFF annual report and financial statements, Members felt that a root cause for weak ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department International Relations & Cooperation & African Renaissance Fund: Interrogation of Annual Report 2013/14
11 Mar 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts interrogated the 2013/14 Annual Report of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) and the financial statements of the African Renaissance Fund (ARF), which had fallen under the DIRCO since 2011. DIRCO had 125 missions abroad and 20 were visited during the audit, ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Home Affairs; Department of International Relations and Cooperation: hearings of evidence
4 Mar 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts held a hearing of evidence with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO). The hearings were based on the departments’ annual reports for 2013/14 and the Auditor-General’s report for the same financial year.
The DHA said ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Interrogation of Department of Defence 2013/14 Annual Report: Auditor-General's findings
3 Mar 2015
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met with the National Treasury, and the Secretary for Defence, since feedback from those parties would assist the Committee in coming to a conclusion whether to recommend the condonation of irregular expenditure, which amounted to over R1 billion and fruitless and wasteful expenditure, in ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Unauthorised expenditure by Departments: SCOPA reports
3 Feb 2015
The Committee considered its reports on unauthorised expenditure by the Departments of Social Development, Water Affairs, Trade and Industry, Home Affairs and Women, Children and People with Disabilities. It also considered its report on unauthorised expenditure in the Office of the Presidency. Changes were effected to reports as the Committee ...