Mr Farhat Essack

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Farhat Essack

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • NCOP Appropriations Adjustments Appropriation Bill [B16-2016] & Finance Bill [B21-2016]: consideration; Committee Report on MTBPS
    8 Dec 2016

    Report of the meeting to follow.

  • NCOP Finance Tax Bills: adoption
    7 Dec 2016

    All four Tax Bills were considered and adopted without amendment. The DA objected to certain items in the Taxation Laws Amendment Bill and in the Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill, which were captured in the Committee Report.

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Adjustments Appropriation Bill; Finance Bill: briefing by National Treasury
    1 Dec 2016

    National Treasury briefed a joint meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations on the 2016 Adjustments Appropriations Bill and the 2016 Finance Bill.

    Members were informed about the different aspects of the Adjustments Appropriations Bill, which included unforeseeable and unavoidable expenditure, virements, roll-overs, self-financing expenditure, and declared unspent ...

  • NCOP Appropriations Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B15-2016]: final mandates
    29 Nov 2016

    Documents handed out:
    Final Mandates [awaited]
    Committee Minutes
    Committee Report on Division of Revenue Amendment Bill
    [All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]

    Eight Provincial Legislatures submitted final mandates and voted in support of the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill. The Eastern Cape Legislature had not deliberated ...

  • NCOP Appropriations Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: negotiating mandates
    24 Nov 2016

    The Committee met to deliberate on negotiating mandates from all the provinces on the 2016 Division of Revenue Adjustment (DoRA) Bill.

    The Committee heard that the Limpopo and the Eastern Cape (EC) provinces had indicated electronically that they could not formulate a mandate for the DoRA Bill due to lack ...

  • NCOP Appropriations Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B15–2016]: public hearings
    11 Nov 2016

    The Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations conducted public hearings on the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill. The purpose of the Bill was to amend the Division of Revenue Act passed by Parliament in 2016.

    The Rural Health Advocacy Project, in its submission, made a recommendation that the government needed ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B15-2016]: National Treasury briefing
    10 Nov 2016

    The National Treasury briefed the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations on the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill.

    On provincial allocations, it was reported that R275.7 million would be rolled over from allocations made in 2015/16 on the provincial roads maintenance grant for KwaZulu-Natal. These funds had not been transferred ...

  • Finance Standing Committee 2016 MTBPS: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
    1 Nov 2016

    The PBO presented its MTBPS analysis to the four Committees. It gave members highlights from the Ministers MTBPS speech and some highlights included stabilising debt as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), stimulating growth, increasing revenue growth and creating more government efficiency. PBO gave an outline of reprioritisation to ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 2016: Minister of Finance and National Treasury briefings
    27 Oct 2016

    Documents Handed Out:
    Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: National Treasury presentation [awaited]

    The National Treasury and the Minister of Finance briefed the Committee with a full and detailed presentation on the main messages of the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). This emphasised the trying economic environment in which the ...

  • Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament Committee Report on Parliament’s 2015/16 Annual Report
    21 Oct 2016

    Documents handed out:
    Committee Report on of the Republic of SA’s 2015/16 Annual Report
    [All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]

    The Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament adopted two sets of minutes and a draft report. All the documents are about the Parliament’s ...