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Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill - DWS & Cooperative Governance briefings (Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation present)
27 Nov 2019
The Department of Water and Sanitation presented on the 2019/20 Adjusted Appropriation Bill. The Department had reprioritised infrastructure allocations from underspending projects to those with a capacity to absorb. Funding was reprioritised towards the Blue Drop/Green Drop programme to improve drinking water and wastewater quality management, and the settlement accruals ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill: DoH briefing; Engagement with delegation from Kenyan Parliament; with Deputy Minister
26 Nov 2019
The Committee engaged with the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget of the Parliament of the Republic of Kenya who were on a fact finding visit to learn about how South Africa implemented the Division of Revenue (DoR) and, in particular, the equitable share formula for provinces and local government, ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: National Treasury briefing
14 Nov 2019
The National Treasury briefed the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations on the 2019 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill (DoRAB). They were told it proposed relatively small in-year adjustments in the allocation of funds to national, provincial and local government.
The Committees were briefed on the way in which the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
DPME 2019/20 Quarter 2 performance for National Departments; Committee strategy concerning Eskom
13 Nov 2019
The Committee was supposed to have been briefed by the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation DPME on the performance of National Departments but the Committee did not accept that the Department had only sent a single Chief Director. Members found it a sign of disrespect as the Deputy Directors ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 MTBPS: Human Sciences Research Council (HRSC) submission
12 Nov 2019
The Human Sciences Research Council (HRSC) gave a submission on the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement touching on government debt and the public sector wage bill; health issues in the form of HIV/AIDS, the youth, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), NHI; gender based violence; and education budget priorities. It also giving a ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 MTBPS: Public Service Commission briefing
6 Nov 2019
The Committee was briefed on the 2019 Medium Term Budget Policy (MTBPS) by the Public Service Commission (PSC). The PSC spoke to its mandated areas of oversight and administration and adherence to applicable procedures of the Public Service such as personnel; public administration practices; and compliance to the values and ...
Finance Standing Committee
2019 MTBPS: PBO & FFC briefing
5 Nov 2019
Members of the Finance and Appropriations Committees heard opposing views on what should be done to restore the country’s finances when they were briefed on the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) by the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) and the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO).
In its presentation, the FFC ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Meeting with Eskom Executive Board on challenges facing the power utility
29 Oct 2019
Eskom Roadmap
2018/19 Eskom AFS
2017/18 Eskom Annual report
Energy Regulator sanctions 13.82% Eskom tariff hike for 2019
The Standing Committee on Appropriations met with the Eskom Executive Board to discuss challenges facing the power utility following an oversight visit to Eskom. This meeting also came at a time when ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Audit Outcome 2018/19: briefing by Auditor General
23 Oct 2019
Parliament’s Standing Committees on Public Accounts and Appropriations were told that the key message from the 2018/19 audit outcomes of government departments and state-owned entities (SOEs) was that preventive controls, strong consequence management and an effective monitoring culture were still lacking.
Of the 432 entities that were audited, 100 had ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Special Appropriation Bill [B10-2019]: committee report
10 Oct 2019
The Committee adopted its report on the Special Appropriation Bill [B10-2019], with amendments to reflect the need for more stringent conditions to be imposed on the R59 billion bailout to Eskom over the 2019/20 and 2020/21 financial years
The Committee underlined that it did not want to give Eskom a ...