Committee Legacy Report: consideration and adoption

Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation

13 March 2014
Chairperson: Ms B Dambuza (ANC)
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Meeting Summary

The Committee met to adopt all outstanding minutes for the year, as well as the legacy report. The legacy report contained activities of the Committee in the 4th Parliament, but it also highlighted areas that the Committee felt needed to be focused on.

The Committee adopted all the minutes and the legacy report with the amendments proposed by Ms P Duncan (DA) to look into;

Title deeds
The funded and unfunded posts
The IT system of the Department
Upgrading the Supply Chain Management systems
Monitoring and Evaluation systems
Strengthening Intergovernmental Relations
 

Meeting report

Consideration and adoption of Minutes
Minutes dated 28 January 2014
The Chairperson asked the Committee to read through the minutes and see if they were correct and for Members to check if the attendance register was correct as it would be attached and submitted with the legacy report.

Ms G Borman (ANC) proposed that the Committee adopt the minutes with grammatical amendments. Ms M Njobe (COPE) seconded the proposal.

The minutes of 28 January 2014 were adopted with amendments.

Minutes dated 29 January 2014
The Chairperson suggested that in the resolutions it should be mentioned that the parties that participated in the public hearings would receive a response on their submissions. The Committee Secretary and the Research Unit would be working on putting that together and sending it out.

Ms S Mokgalapa (DA) proposed that the Committee adopt the minutes. Mr R Bhoola (MF) seconded the adoption.

The minutes of 29 January 2014 were adopted with amendments.

Minutes dated 5 February 2014
The Chairperson said the resolutions should include that the Committee requested the affected persons be present next time the Committee discussed the Newtown matter.

Ms P Duncan (DA) proposed that the Committee adopt the minutes. Mr Bhoola seconded the adoption.

The Minutes of 5 February 2014 were adopted with amendments.

Minutes dated 6 February 2014
Ms Duncan proposed that the Committee adopt the minutes. Mr Bhoola seconded the adoption.

Minutes of 6 February 2014 were adopted as they were.

Minutes dated 12 February 2014
Ms Duncan proposed that the Committee adopt the minutes. Ms A Mashishi (ANC) seconded the adoption.

Minutes of 12 February 2014 were adopted as they were.

Minutes dated 19 February 2014
The Chairperson said that the report that the Committee requested from the national Department of Human Settlements and Nelson Mandela Bay should be specified that it was a report from the Provincial Legislature Committee on Human Settlements on the complaints received from contractors and not from the Human Settlements Committee in the province as currently stated in the minutes.

Ms J Sosibo (ANC) proposed that the Committee adopt the minutes. Mr K Sithole (IFP) seconded the adoption.

Minutes of 19 February 2014 were adopted with amendments.

Minutes dated 26 February 2014
Ms Mnisi proposed that the Committee adopt the minutes. Mr Sithole seconded the adoption.

Minutes of 26 February 2014 were adopted as they were.

Consideration and adoption of Committee Legacy Report
The Chairperson said the Committee drafted a legacy report so that when the new Parliament came in Members would be able to see what the previous Committee had done.

Ms Duncan said the legacy report should also include the following issues that had been constantly raised by the Committee;
Title deeds
The funded and unfunded posts
The IT system of the Department of Human Settlements
Upgrading the Supply Chain Management systems and
Monitoring and Evaluation systems

Also from the oversight visits of the Committee, it was important that there was better cooperative governance and more attention was given in the strengthening of the Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) especially regarding their spatial development frameworks.

The Chairperson said she would make sure that the report would be presented in the condition and quality that had come to be expected from the Portfolio Committee of Human Settlements.

Ms Borman moved that the Committee adopted the legacy report with amendment. Ms Duncan seconded the adoption of the report.

The legacy report of the Committee was adopted with amendments.

The meeting was adjourned.
 

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