Alexandra Lilian Amelia Abrahams

National Assembly

aabrahams@parliament.gov.za alexandra.abrahams@gmail.com

About Alexandra Lilian Amelia Abrahams

2020 committee attendance as mp

100% attendance rate

Attended 3 meetings out of 3

2019 committee attendance as mp

100% attendance rate

Attended 14 meetings out of 14

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Recent meetings attended

Social Development — Social Assistance Amendment Bill: adoption; Foster Care Court Order: progress report — 17 Mar 2020
Social Development — Social Assistance Amendment Bill [B8-2018]: public hearings — 26 Feb 2020
Social Development — Social Assistance Amendment Bill: summary of submissions; SASSA Quarter 1 - 3 performance — 19 Feb 2020
Social Development — Council of Social Services Professions funding; NACCW on Child & Youth Care Worker challenges — 27 Nov 2019
Social Development — Foster Care Progress Report on High Court Order; DSD 2019/20 Quarter 2 Performance — 20 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

Alternate Member at Portfolio Committee on Social Development (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)

Formerly

3rd Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Western Cape Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

Committee appearances

Social Assistance Amendment Bill: public hearings 26 Feb 2020

Ms A Abrahams (DA) welcomed the submissions and agreed that the amount of the Top Up was something needing careful consideration.
Council of Social Services Professions on funding support from Department & challenges pertaining to training, professionalization of social work practitioners & conditions of employment; NACYCW on challenges encountered in Child and Youth Care sector 27 Nov 2019

Ms A Abrahams (DA) noted that SACCSP said there was a loss of revenue in 2017 but they did not say why there was a loss. They also explained that there was a lot of mismanagement by the first registrar and she asked if disciplinary action was taken against those ...
Foster Care Progress Report on High Court Order; DSD 2019/20 Quarter 2 Performance 20 Nov 2019

Ms A Abrahams (DA) asked the DSD to include a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) analysis showing NPOs’ performance of operations on the ground. How often did households that had been identified as in need, receive food parcels? If there was a great need for food relief, why had some provinces ...
Social Assistance Amendment Bill [B8-2019]: briefing; Department’s action plan to respond to AGSA findings & BRRR 13 Nov 2019

Ms A Abrahams (DA) said as the FCG is R1000 and the CSG is R400, people who are desperate are going to be more inclined to apply for the FCG instead of the CSG. What will SASSA put in place to restrict people from applying for the FCG and prevent ...
Auditor General’s audit findings for 2018/19 Annual Report & BRRR: SASSA & NDA action plan; DSD 2019/20 Quarter 1 performance 6 Nov 2019

Ms A Abrahams (DA) asked if SASSA had done any awareness campaigns to promote the lower usage options when it came to service fees, like the R13 ATM option, to try and save SASSA some money as opposed to paying the higher service fee?

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans 12 Dec 2019

Whether her department incurred any costs related to the (a) inauguration of the President of the Republic, Mr M C Ramaphosa, held in Pretoria on 25 May 2019 and (b) State of the Nation Address held in Cape Town on 20 June 2019; if so, in each case, (i) what ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Social Development 22 Nov 2019

By what date will the vacancy of Director-General of her department be (a) advertised and (b) filled?
Questions asked to the Minister of Environmental Affairs, Forestry and Fisheries 8 Nov 2019

Whether her department did business with certain (a) persons, (b) companies and (c) trusts (names and details furnished in each case) (i) in each of the past five financial years and (ii) since 1 April 2019; if so, (aa) on what date(s) did her department do business with the ...

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