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Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Performing Animals Protection Amendment Bill [B9-2015]: deliberations; Committee Support Officials on Plant Improvement Bill [B8-2015] and Plant Breeders’ Rights Bill [B11-2015]
25 Aug 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries received a briefing from its support officials about issues that had arisen from the public hearings and the response the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) had given to the processing of the Plant Breeders’ Rights and Plant Improvement Bills before ...
Tourism
Domestic Tourism: National Department of Tourism briefing
20 Aug 2015
Domestic tourism covered travelling locally with the purpose of visiting friends and relatives or for religious, business, holiday and medical purposes. Members were given insight into two surveys done by SA Tourism and StatsSA on domestic tourism. The surveys differed in sample, scope, variables and the period of the surveys. ...
Water and Sanitation
Committee reports
18 Aug 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation met to consider and adopt minutes of meetings and Committee reports. At the outset, the Chairperson suggested the Committee needed a systematic process to follow up on outstanding issues arising from engagements with the Department, and was advised that a tracking tool could ...
Water and Sanitation
Engineer & Scientist vacancy reduction: interventions by Department of Water & Sanitation, Engineering Council of South Africa, Water Research Commission, Energy & Water SETA, Rand Water Academy
12 Aug 2015
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) together with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and Rand Water briefed the Committee on their interventions to reduce the vacancy rate of engineers and scientists in the Water Sector. The South African Youth Council was also in attendance.
Apologies were received ...
NCOP Appropriations
Parliamentary Budget Office Overview; Economic and Fiscal Review and Outlook
22 Jul 2014
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) delivered their presentation to the Select Committee on Appropriations. The main thrust of the overview was that the PBO would be offering technical support and that the legislative branch had to be aware of its role as policy driver for the nation.
During discussion, the ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Committee Legacy Report; Oversight Reports: adoption
10 Mar 2014
Opening Remarks
The Chairperson and Members commented that the severe flooding that had recently taken place in North West required some intervention from the Disaster Management teams, and said that the Committee, despite the fact that this was the last week of Parliament, needed to get some information from the ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
AgriBEE fund disbursements: Department Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries briefing; Poultry tariffs: ITAC briefing
11 Feb 2014
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) briefed the Portfolio Committee on disbursement of funds from the AgriBEE funds, the balance in the AgriBEE funds, funded projects, criteria for proposal approval and challenges of the Charter. It was noted that this fund was supported through an annual allocation of ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
2012 & 2013 Budgetary Review and Recommendations Reports: Departmental Response; Second Quarter Performance Report 2013/14 & update on fishing rights allocations: Departmental briefing
10 Feb 2014
The Committee received two briefings by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The first was the responses to the question the Committee had posed to the Department during the 2012 and 2013 Budgetary Review and Recommendations Reports. The Committee was pleased that the Department was implementing some of the ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Department Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) interim audit in 2nd quarter: AGSA briefing; Disaster management update by Department, 1st term Committee programme adoption
29 Jan 2014
The Office of the Auditor-General (AGSA) briefed the Committee on the results shown for the 2nd Quarter 2013 for the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), as highlighted in an interim audit. The briefing gave results in respect of predetermined objectives and key focus areas of the Department and six ...