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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on 2018 National Budget Dialogue
5 Jun 2018
The Committee met to consider the draft report on the 2018 National Budget Dialogue, and to approve the minutes of its May meetings and its programme for the third term. Members discussed the inputs from stakeholders, and identified typographical and grammatical errors which they corrected with the Committee staff.
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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on Contract Extension of Parliament Budget Office Director
24 May 2018
The Standing and Select Committees on Finance and Appropriations met to consider and adopt the Report of the Contract Extension of Parliamentary Budget Office Director. Members were taken through processes surrounding this action. The proposal was that the contract of the Director be extended for three months after the 2019 ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on 2018 Appropriation Bill
22 May 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations met for consideration of Committee Report on the 2018 Appropriation Bill. The Report flowed from the numerous engagements between the Committee and stakeholders as well as the public.
The Committee recommendations were highlighted as follows:
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2018 Appropriation Bill: public hearings; Parliamentary Budget Office Director reappointment
18 May 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations held public hearings on the 2018 Appropriation Bill. There were three submissions and an input from National Treasury.
Mr Guy Harris, Education and Governance Activist, said more needed to be done with the available resources, and identified the need for much more emphasis on high ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2018 National Budget Dialogue
16 May 2018
Report of the meeting to follow.
Standing Committee on Appropriations
NDP & Annual Performance Plan alignment: DPME briefing
15 May 2018
The Committee received a briefing from the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) on the alignment of the annual performance plans (APP)s of departments with the National Development Plan (NDP) goals, the medium term strategic framework (MTSF) and the Budget.
The DPME highlighted misalignments between the Estimates of National ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill 2018: input from Human Sciences Research Council & DA
11 May 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) on the 2018 Appropriation Bill. The Committee also considered DA proposals on the Appropriations Bill.
HSRC raised a number of pertinent socio-economic issues relating to early childhood development (ECD), post-school education, land reform and the wider ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill 2018: input from Public Service Commission; Parliamentary Budget Office
9 May 2018
The Public Service Commission (PSC) gave its comments on the 2018 Appropriations Bill to the Committee. The presentation covered the PSC’s areas of oversight and the outputs of its oversight function. The PSC acknowledged that it was not a financial institution, but was the custodian of good administration and would ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill 2018: Financial and Fiscal Commission briefing
8 May 2018
The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) came before the Standing Committee on Appropriations (SCOA or “the committee”) to present comments and recommendations regarding the 2018 Appropriation Bill (“the Bill”). The presentation was thorough and discussed the Bill, economic outlook, investment and job creation, baseline changes across votes, risks to the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill 2018: National Treasury briefing
4 May 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by National Treasury on the 2018 Appropriation Bill.
National Treasury presented the 2018 Appropriation Bill. The Bill was divided by vote and by main division within a vote (i.e. by programme and / or transfer and subsidy to a national department within a ...