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Public Works Budget Review and Recommendations Report
23 Oct 2014
The Chairperson led Members of the Portfolio Committee on Public Works through a page-by-page review of the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). The only major issues related to the suggestion to substitute “eliminate corruption” for “address corruption,” and the timeframe for the presentation of financial reports. Members reached agreement ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Auditor-General of South Africa on audit outcomes of Department of Public Works
14 Oct 2014
The Office of the Auditor General (AGSA) and the Department of Public Works provided an overview of the audit outcomes and other findings in respect of the Department for the 2013/14 financial year.
AGSA reported that the Department had received an unqualified audit for the period under review. In the ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Workshop with Office of Auditor-General, Financial & Fiscal Commission & Department of Performance Monitoring & Evaluation in preparation for BRRR process
25 Sep 2014
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA), the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) and the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) presented a workshop to the Public Works Portfolio Committee on how to understand audit outcomes better, so that it would be capacitated to perform its oversight function more ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works on 1st Quarter Performance for 2014/15
16 Sep 2014
The Department of Public Works (DPW) said this was the first time they had presented a quarterly report after a substantial outcome from their stabilisation phase. A report on the turnaround had been presented to Cabinet and endorsed. It was seven-year turnaround plan. For the first part of their stabilisation ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works on Phase Three of Expanded Public Works Programme, with Deputy Minister
9 Sep 2014
The presentation described the aims and objectives of the third phase of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), which was designed to address the issues of unemployment and poverty, specifically among women and young people. It sought to train millions of unemployed people across different sectors through various Public Employment ...
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Independent Development Trust and Deputy Minister on IDT's way forward
26 Aug 2014
With the Public Works Deputy Minister in attendance, the IDT presented its Strategic Plan for the period 2014/15-2018/19. The presentation focused on the current restructuring of the organisation which had been sparked by the almost complete depletion of their endowment funds. Until the financial crisis, IDT had implemented its projects ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Council for the Built Environment on its 2014 Strategic Plan: follow-up meeting
19 Aug 2014
The Committee was briefed on the Strategic and Annual Performance Plans of the Council for the Built Environment (CBE), with the Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the Council in attendance. The meeting was a continuation of a previously unfinished meeting.
Members heard that key risks included the dependency on third ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Construction Industry Development Board & Council for the Built Environment on their 2014 Strategic plans, in presence of Deputy Minister
29 Jul 2014
The Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) presented its Strategic and Annual Performance Plans for 2014/15, in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Public Works. CIDB had a strong focus on making amendments to regulations, particularly to identify and effect further improvements to contractor registration criteria, taking into account the ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Committee Report on Public Works 201 Budget
10 Jul 2014
The Committee met to consider the draft budget report and adopt it. The Members proposed that certain information be added to the report to make it clearer to the reader when the meeting with the Department happened and which entities were within the Department and what legislation governed those entities. ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Processing of budget votes, Role Clarification, Department's Strategic Plan: briefings by Committee Secretary, Researcher and Content Advisor
1 Jul 2014
The Committee Secretary, the Committee Researcher and the Content Advisor present on clarification of the Portfolio Committee’s role, the process it was expected to follow when dealing with the budget votes, as well as on the legacy left behind by the previous Committee. Oversight issues that had emerged during the ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Election of Chairperson
24 Jun 2014
The Portfolio Committee on Public Works met to elect its Chairperson. Mr B Martins (ANC) was elected unopposed as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Works. Mr Martins urged Members to work together and set aside their political differences so as to prioritize on serving the South African citizens. ...