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Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Quarter 1 performance; Parliamentary Budget Office on its Quarterly Economic Brief and analysis NDP Outcome 6
27 Aug 2019
The Committee was informed by National Treasury (NT) of the quarterly expenditures by national departments and their entities, indicating those that had overspent and underspent and the ways that Treasury had tried to intervene. Of great concern was that most departments had underspent their budgets, because if money was available ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury briefing: Members’ Orientation
21 Aug 2019
The Standing Committee on Appropriations (SCoA) hosted an induction session with the National Treasury. The Committee was briefed on various structural aspects of public finance, state owned entities and state owned companies.
Highlights included the questioning of the allocation of national revenue to provincial and local government (which it did ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Financial and Fiscal Commission briefing: Members' Orientation
20 Aug 2019
The Financial and Fiscal Commission ( FFC) conducted a workshop for the Appropriations Committee to assist it in exercising and improving legislative oversight over government institutions. The presentation answered a wide range of questions that were posed by Members of the Committee, such as how to improve fiscal oversight over ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Induction on Committee Mandate and Work
20 Aug 2019
The Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT) briefed the Committee on its mandate, organisational structure, progress report and constraints. Notable progress had been the operational achievement pertaining to convictions. In the current financial year there had been 16 convictions resulting from ten cases. Government officials’ convictions were standing at 210.
Challenges faced ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Appropriation Bill: proposed amendments & Committee Report
19 Jul 2019
The Democratic Alliance put forward a proposal to amend the Appropriations Bill, involving an adjustment of R8.5 billion. It wanted this amount to be allocated to three priority areas – combating crime, job creation and skills development, and for health care programmes. It said the funds could come from savings ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Appropriation Bill: public hearings and Treasury response
16 Jul 2019
The Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations held a joint public hearing on the 2019 Appropriation Bill and heard from the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and from Mr Guy Harris.
Cosatu said it had expected the Budget to go further in addressing the economic, governance and budgetary ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Committee Legacy Report
10 Jul 2019
The Committee held discussions on the Legacy Report of the Standing Committee on Auditor-General of the Fifth Parliament.
The Committee Content Advisor took the Committee through the Legacy Report and highlighted a number of areas which required the Committee’s attention. He highlighted challenges faced by the Auditor-General (AG), which could ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Appropriation Bill: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
9 Jul 2019
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) briefing was made to a joint sitting of the Appropriations Committees of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces. The 2019 Appropriations Bill was tabled by the Minister of Finance along with the 2019 Budget. It provided for the appropriation of money for ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee’s role and budget process: training; Legacy Report
4 Jul 2019
The Committee’s support staff delivered a threefold presentation to the Committee on its role in the Sixth Parliament, with a focus on its mandate, Committee rules and procedures, and the Fifth Parliament Legacy Report.
The Committee was told it had the capacity and constitutional authority under the Money ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury 2018/19 Quarter 4 performance; Appropriation Bill 2019, with Deputy Minister
3 Jul 2019
Members of the two Committees expressed concern that under-spending by some departments indicated failures in service delivery. The under-spending was highlighted by National Treasury during a presentation on fourth-quarter spending by national government departments and public entities.
Treasury said 98.7% of the adjusted appropriation of R11 billion had been spent. ...
Standing Committee on Auditor General
Election of Chairperson
2 Jul 2019
Report of the meetinThe Committee convened to elect its Chairperson. Mr S Somyo (ANC) was nominated unopposed as Chairperson of the Committee. He accepted the nomination of Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Auditor-Generalg to follow.
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Election of Committee Chairperson
2 Jul 2019
The Committee elected Mr S Buthelezi (ANC) to be its chairperson after a vote.
The Committee also agreed unanimously on a work programme to consider and report on the government’s budget spending plans as outlined in the 2019 Appropriations Bill.