Adrian Christopher Roos

National Assembly

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 15 meetings out of 15

2019 committee attendance as mp

93% attendance rate

Attended 14 meetings out of 15

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Recent meetings attended

Home Affairs — Implementation of Concourt judgement; with Ministry & Remuneration of IEC Commissioners; GPW Oversight Report — 21 Jul 2020
Home Affairs — IEC on its readiness for 2021 Local Government Elections; with Deputy Minister; DHA Budget: Committee Report — 14 Jul 2020
Home Affairs — DHA, IEC & GPW 2020/21 Special Adjustment Budget; with Minister and Deputy Minister — 7 Jul 2020
Home Affairs — IEC on impact of Constitutional Court ruling allowing independent candidates to be elected to the National Assembly and Provincial Legislatures, with Minister and Deputy Minister — 25 Jun 2020
Home Affairs — Department of Home Affairs Quarter 4 performance; with Ministry — 9 Jun 2020

All meetings attended

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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

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Committee appearances

Implementation of Concourt judgement on participation of independent candidates in the Provincial and National Elections; Remuneration of IEC Commissioners; GPW Oversight Report 21 Jul 2020

Mr A Roos (DA) stated that the values described at the end of the presentation were very important, and whether or not people agreed with the values set up by the Van Zyl Slabbert Commission, they were important as they would guide all the decisions that would be made in ...
IEC on its readiness for 2021 Local Government Elections; DHA Budget: Committee Report 14 Jul 2020

Mr C Roos (DA) stated that he had been attempting to catch the attention of the Chairperson but the hand raising button had not worked. He referred to the matter regarding Ms Khanyile and the intention of Ms Legwase to approach the Ethics Committee. Seeing as advice had been received ...
DHA, IEC & GPW on Adjusted Budget & Revised Annual Performance Plan 7 Jul 2020

Mr A Roos (DA) thanked the Minister and his team for the presentation and thanked DHA for helping homeless people. It was devastating to see such a significant budget cuts being demanded from Treasury. There was also R22 million put aside for PPE; will this money be enough for PPE ...
IEC on impact of Constitutional Court ruling allowing independent candidates to be elected to the National Assembly and Provincial Legislatures 25 Jun 2020

Mr A Roos (DA) asked why the Minister and IEC opposed the application. Was there a need to oppose the application to make submissions on urgency and otherwise? Did this opposition cause the cost order? Mr Roos noted a number of acts involving political parties – would these acts have to ...
Department of Home Affairs Quarter 4 performance 9 Jun 2020

Mr A Roos (DA) said it was youth month and mobile units from the Department were supposed to be deployed to support learners with ID registration. Would this be happening? He said there were students and learners stuck in eSwatini and Mozambique and unable to come back from across border ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 23 Jul 2020

For each of the cases (details furnished) where his department has not complied or partially complied with the court order, (a) why has his department not fully complied with the court order, (b) what steps have been taken to fully comply with the order and (c) by what date will ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 23 Jul 2020

For each of the past three financial years to date, (a) what total amount did the Government Printing Works spend on external legal services, including contracting services and legal opinion services and (b)(i) which three firms received the highest total amounts, (ii) what total amount did each of the ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 20 Jul 2020

What (a) remedial actions have been taken regarding the escape of at least 37 foreign nationals from the Lindela Repatriation Centre on 3 May 2020, (b) sanctions have been taken against the security service provider and (c) actions have his department taken to ensure that the payment dispute between security ...

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 ...

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