Michael Stephen Shackleton

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Michael Stephen Shackleton

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Standing Committee on Appropriations Legacy Report
    20 Mar 2019

    The Committee reviewed, discussed and amended their Legacy Report. It was highlighted that the Committee had to exercise monitoring over Parliament’s budget using a monitoring instrument, that this Committee was an overseer of all Committees and departments, and that this Committee had to validate information by benchmarking. It was stated ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Public Audit Excess Bill: adoption
    13 Mar 2019

    Documents handed out: Draft committee report on the Public Audit Excess Fee Bill.

    The Committee agreed unanimously to a Bill which aims to overcome difficulties the Auditor General has in securing payment for audits of some government entities which are financially distressed.

    While national and provincial government departments have to ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Committee Report on Division of Revenue Bill 2019
    12 Mar 2019

    The Standing Committee considered and adopted its Report on the Division of Revenue Bill. The Committee examined the draft report on a page-by-page basis, with the input of the National Treasury. The changes made were largely about grammar and numbering. However, a substantive debate on the mismatch between funding and ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Division of Revenue Bill: public hearings; FFC & SALGA input
    8 Mar 2019

    The Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations held a joint sitting to receive input on the 2019 Division of Revenue Bill (B5). The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), the Western Cape Forum for Intellectual Disability (WCFID) and Equal Education all submitted their comments ...

  • Standing Committee on Auditor General Committee Legacy Report
    7 Mar 2019

    Available here once published: Legacy Reports

    The Committee considered and adopted its Legacy Report

    Members were informed that the Committee had been invited to the Scholarship Awards that were sponsored by the Office of the Auditor-General of South Africa.

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Jobs Fund: National Treasury briefing
    5 Mar 2019

    National Treasury presented a performance update on the Employment Creation Facilitation Fund (the Jobs Fund). The Fund was created in 2011 with a target of creating 150 thousand permanent jobs. By December 2018, the Fund had created 170 thousand permanent jobs, 55 thousand short term jobs, 20 thousand internships and ...

  • Standing Committee on Auditor General Deputy Auditor-General appointment; Public Audit Amendment Act Regulations; Annual Report & Legacy Report
    26 Feb 2019

    Documents handed out: Summary document [Members’ only]; Public Audit Amendment Bill: Draft Regulations briefingPublic Audit Amendment Act

    The Auditor-General of South Africa presented to the Standing Committee on the Auditor General on regulations pursuant to the Public Audit Amendment Act (PAAA), the progress of AGSA’s Centenary Scholarship, and the renewal ...

  • Finance Standing Committee 2019 Budget: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
    26 Feb 2019

    Parliamentary Budget Office - Pre-budget discussion 20192019 Budget Speech;  2018 MTBPS

    The Finance and Appropriations Committees met jointly for a briefing by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on the 2019 Budget. This was a follow-up meeting with MPs.

    The PBO said the 2019 Budget priorities included the ...

  • Finance Standing Committee 2019 Budget: Minister of Finance briefing
    21 Feb 2019

    2019 Budget Speech

     2018 MTBPS

    The Finance and Appropriations Committees met jointly for a briefing by the Minister of Finance on the 2019 Budget.

    The Minister of Finance emphasised the need for the public to understand that there is no endless supply of cash in government. The biggest risk ...

  • Standing Committee on Appropriations Deviations & expansions in 2018/19 Quarter 2 & 3: Office of Chief Procurement Officer
    13 Feb 2019

    The highlighted that entities must only deviate from inviting competitive bids in cases of emergency and sole supplier status. An emergency procurement may occur when there is a serious and unexpected situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment which calls an agency to action and ...