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Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Preparatory meeting: adoption of minutes
14 Jun 2017
The Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament adopted two sets of minutes and discussed matters that arose from the sets of minutes. Issues on the table were around policy documents and feedback that has not been received from the executive authority regarding concerns from previous meetings the ...
Finance Standing Committee
Money Bills Amendment Procedure and Related Matters Act: workshop
13 Jun 2017
Constitutional and Legal Services Office took the committees through a presentation on the review of the Money Bills Amendment Procedure and Related Matters Act. He outlined the rationale for the sequencing of appropriations. The requirement that the Division of Revenue Bill (DORB) and the Appropriation Bill may only be referred ...
NCOP Finance
Free State 2016/17 expenditure: Provincial Treasury report
7 Jun 2017
The National Treasury briefed the Committee on provincial budgets and expenditure for the fourth quarter, 2016/17. There was overspending on compensation of employees (CoE), and underspending on goods and services and infrastructure related conditional grants in the social sector, especially in education and social development. The Department of Education overspent ...
NCOP Appropriations
OR Tambo District Municipality appeal against stopping its MIG allocation
6 Jun 2017
Documents handed out:
Committee research document on OR Tambo District Municipality
The meeting was convened in an attempt to resolve a problem experienced by the OR Tambo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape as a result of the stoppage by Treasury of R90 million that had been allocated in terms ...
NCOP Finance
Northern Cape & Limpopo 2016/17 expenditure: Provincial Treasury reports; Limpopo post intervention: National Treasury input
31 May 2017
After the National Treasury had presented an overview of the budget performance of South Africa’s provincial governments, the Northern Cape and Limpopo described the progress which their provinces had made in meeting their budget targets.
The main issue with Northern Cape concerned under-spending. The Health Department had under-spent by R116m, ...
NCOP Appropriations
Urban Settlements Development Grant 2016/17 performance: Department of Human Settlements briefing, with Minister
30 May 2017
The Select Committee on Appropriations was told that the National Development Plan (NDP) emphasised the need for urban reform in order to overcome the legacy of apartheid. The Minister of Finance had indicated that expenditure for the advancement of human settlements would be increased by 8%, and would reach an ...
NCOP Finance
Eastern Cape & North West 2016/17 expenditure: Provincial Treasury reports
24 May 2017
The briefing by the National Treasury dealt with provincial budgets and their expenditure for the fourth quarter of 2016/17. In the Eastern Cape, all departments had under-spent on their budgets, especially the Departments of Health, Economic Development, and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA). In Health, there had been overspending ...
NCOP Appropriations
Early Childhood Development Grant: Department of Social Development presentation
23 May 2017
There was a lot of concern about the figures for the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Grant, mainly because there was no costing allocated to children with disabilities. The Committee emphasised that the idea of putting off disability costing when doing grants was highly exclusionary. The Department of Social Development (DSD) ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Committee Strategic Planning Workshop
12 May 2017
The Parliament of South Africa is not doing oversight, but merely compliance. This comment by the Chairperson emerged during the discussion by the Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament in its first strategic planning workshop.
Since 1994, Parliament has never changed the way it works. The number ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Secretary to Parliament response to oversight questions
11 May 2017
Document awaited
The Secretary to Parliament appeared before the Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament to provide explanations on matters the Committee had raised during previous meetings between November 2016 and February 2017.
Answers from the Secretary dealt with filling of vacancies; performance management system; centralization ...