Adrian Christopher Roos

National Assembly

aroos@parliament.gov.za dadrianroos@gmail.com

About Adrian Christopher Roos

Adrian Roos holds LLB and BSc degrees and has applied location intelligence to drive growth and innovation in the government, transport, retail, monitoring & evaluation spheres for over 20 years. As a former National Chairperson of the Geoinformatics Society of South Africa he was instrumental in driving the professionalisation, establishment of regions and education programmes in the geoinformatics industry. As a passionate community activist during this time, Roos focussed on youth and disability projects establishing funding and support networks. The drive to tackle the broad scale injustices encountered lead to politics. Roos served on the Public Accounts, Finance, Economic Development, Transport and Environment Committees as a PR Councillor in the City of Tshwane before being elected to Parliament on the Home Affairs Portfolio. During this time he was elected to the DA Gauteng North Regional Executive and admitted as an Advocate of the North Gauteng High Court.

2020 committee attendance as mp

100% attendance rate

Attended 4 meetings out of 4

2019 committee attendance as mp

93% attendance rate

Attended 14 meetings out of 15

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Recent meetings attended

Home Affairs — Refugee situation in Cape Town: stakeholder engagement; with the Minister — 10 Mar 2020
Home Affairs — DHA, IEC & GPW on 2020/21 budgets, with input from National Treasury; with Minister and Deputy Minister — 3 Mar 2020
Home Affairs — Department 2019 Quarter 2 & 3 performance; BMA Bill; Impact of SONA, with Minister — 18 Feb 2020
Home Affairs — BMA Bill: NCOP amendments; Performance Audit on undocumented immigrants; with Minister — 4 Feb 2020
Home Affairs — DHA on strategies to resolve long queues at Home Affairs offices; with Deputy Minister — 26 Nov 2019

All meetings attended

DISCLAIMER: This information has been obtained via the Parliamentary Monitoring Group. PMG makes every effort to compile reliable and comprehensive information, but does not claim that the data is 100% accurate and complete.

Currently

Committee Member at Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs (National Assembly Committees) since 7th February 2020
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)

Formerly

Alternate Member at Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs (National Assembly Committees) from 27th June 2019 until 7th February 2020
25th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
83rd Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

Committee appearances

Department 2019 Quarter 2 & 3 performance; BMA Bill; Impact of SONA 18 Feb 2020

Mr A Roos (DA) said the DA accepted the changes proposed by the NCOP, but reserved their rights on the final bill.
Border Management Authority Bill: Department briefing on NCOP amendments; Performance audit of immigration process for undocumented immigrants: AGSA briefing 4 Feb 2020

Mr A Roos (DA) thanked the Minister for the presentation. He had tried to understand the BMA for a while because it had changed quite a bit since the beginning. It came in 2009 and then the idea was that everything would be integrated including the customs role. However, that ...
DHA on strategies to resolve long queues at Home Affairs offices 26 Nov 2019

Mr A Roos (DA) said that the DHA needed enough resources to resolve these problems. He welcomed the monitoring tools at Home Affairs offices. On inadequate resources, he referred to the Centurion Office. He said that he had gone there and found that there were seven staff members serving the ...
2018 High-Level Panel Recommendations: DHA and IEC briefing; Fireblade Aviation agreement and EOH contract: DHA update 19 Nov 2019

Mr A Roos (DA) welcomed the presentation. He sought clarity on financial cost in the implementation of the system, on whether there could be elections in all three spheres of government, and on the potential of combined local and national elections and what would be the savings if elections were ...
Resolving DHA offices’ network downtime & ABIS Procurement process: DHA & SITA briefing; DHA on litigation case management system and categorizing of the cases; with Minister and Deputy Minister 5 Nov 2019

Mr A Roos (DA) said that presentations should speak to solutions. He asked why other departments did not have problems with network connectivity, but the DHA did. In the next three years, the DHA would go down. He sought clarity whether Telkom was involved in the power failures. When services ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Trade and Industry 7 Jan 2020

With reference to his reply to question 1293 on 18 November 2019, wherein he indicated that the second phase of the Ekandustria Revitalisation Programme has not been initiated yet, pending funding approval, (a) why was budget for the Ekandustria Revitalisation Programme not set aside for the 2019-20 financial year, (b ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 24 Dec 2019

With reference to the Home Affairs Office in West Street, Centurion, what (a) is the expiry date of the lease agreement for the office building, (b) plans are in place to move to a more suitable venue considering the extensive population in the catchment area and (c) measures have been ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 24 Dec 2019

Whether, with reference to the reply to question 379 on 5 August 2019, in which it was indicated that the date for the re-opening of the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office (CTRRO) is dependent on the finalisation of the lease agreement with the prospective landlord and the related project plan ...

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

MIDVAAL LOCAL MUNICIPALITY AWARDED 6TH SUCCESSIVE CLEAN AUDIT (Draft Resolution) 25 Feb 2020

Hon House Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the House-
1) notes that the Midvaal Local Municipality was recently awarded its 6th successive clean audit by the Auditor-General of South Africa;
2) further notes that the municipality continues to punch above its weight by attracting significant investments in its economy ...
ROWING SA TO HOST 2023 WORLD ROWING MASTERS REGATTA AT ROODEPLAAT DAM (Draft Resolution) 26 Nov 2019

Chair, I move without notice on behalf of the DA:
That the House-
1) congratulates Rowing SA on securing the rights to host the 2023 World Rowing Masters Regatta at the Roodeplaat Dam;
2) recognises that this is the first world rowing event ever to be held in Africa;
3 ...

All Plenary Appearances

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