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Standing Committee on Auditor General
High Level Panel recommendations on Auditor-General SA & Committee Report
13 Sep 2018
The Speaker of the National Assembly referred the Report of the High Level Panel on the Assessment of Key Legislation and Acceleration of Fundamental Change (High Level Panel Report) to several committees, including the Standing Committee on the Auditor General. The committees are required to consider the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Energy Quarter 1 performance: hearing
12 Sep 2018
The Department of Energy(DoE) presented its first quarter expenditure report for the current financial year, and said it had been allocated an annual budget of R7.45 billion, of which R617 million was for the operation of the Department. The balance was allocated to transfer payments which went to public entities ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Deviations and Expansions: Office of Chief Procurement Officer briefing
28 Aug 2018
The Office of the Chief Procurement Officer in National Treasury gave a presentation outline which focused on the deviations and expansions requests made from April to June 2018 in organs of state, deviation and expansion trends, deviations supported/not supported, expansions supported/not supported, where the fault lines are and what Treasury ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Quarter 1 performance 2018/19 of departments
24 Aug 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations received a briefing from Parliamentary Committee Researchers on the analysis of the First Quarter Expenditure Report for the 2018/19 financial year. Most of the departments’ expenditure reports indicated either overspending or under-spending of the funds allocated to them.
There were numerous vacant positions in most ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Quarter 1 performance; Deviation/Expansion requests to Office of Chief Procurement Officer
21 Aug 2018
The National Treasury (NT) told the Committee that in the first quarter of 2018/19, government entities had under-spent their budgets by nearly R10 billion, which was 5.3% of the funds available. The Departments which had contributed the most to this under-spending had been Higher Education and Training (R2 billion), Police ...
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 Auditor General
Public Audit Amendment Draft Bill: finalisation
22 May 2018
The Public Audit Amendment Bill was initiated by the Standing Committee on the Auditor-General as a Committee Bill. The principal Act of 2004 did not give the Auditor-General the authority to take remedial action, nor to ensure that losses suffered by the State were recovered, where possible. Year on year ...
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
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 ...