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Tourism
Initiatives undertaken to improve tourism growth and development: Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) briefing
12 Jun 2015
PMG did not attend this meeting. The meeting was held outside of Parliament.
Ethics and Members' Interest
Extension of deadline for disclosure of Members Interests
10 Jun 2015
The Chief Whips Forum had proposed that the date for the disclosure of Members’ Interests be extended from 30 June 2015 to 31 July 2015, in order to avoid a situation where Members would be late in the disclosure due to a busy programme. The Committee agreed that the deadline ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works on funding of turn-around strategy
9 Jun 2015
The Department of Public Works (DPW) told the Committee that corruption, mismanagement and poor performance had led to the DPW failing to deliver on its mandate. The turnaround strategy – the Seven-Year Business Improvement Plan -- had been launched in January 2012, with the core of the strategy being zero ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works on 4th Quarter Performance for 2014/2015
2 Jun 2015
The Department of Public Works (DPW) presented the fourth quarter 2014/15 report to the Committee. The Department highlighted the purpose of the report, the five-year strategic goals and outcomes, the adopted methodology in the treatment of quarterly performance information, the programme performances of the five initiated programmes and the performance ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4-15]: consideration of submissions, with Deputy Minister; Agrément South Africa Bill [B3B-15] adoption
26 May 2015
The Chairperson went through the A-List and verified that the amendments had been effected in the Agrément South Africa Bill [B3B-2015]. Members moved to adopt the Bill, and it was adopted.
The Committee also considered submissions received on the Expropriation Bill. The period had run from 19 April to 6 ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Agrément South Africa Bill [B3-2015]: deliberations, with Deputy Minister in attendance
19 May 2015
The Department of Public Works, led by Mr Jeremy Cronin, Deputy Minister of Public Works, considered the Agrément South Africa Bill [B3-2015] clause by clause with Members of the Portfolio Committee. Overall there were not many technical amendments. The A-List would be prepared as soon as possible so that the ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Agrément South Africa Bill [B3-2015]: Department & Deputy Minister response to submissions
12 May 2015
The Department of Public Works (DPW) went through the various comments and inputs that were received from the general public, professionals in the engineering field, the Mayor of the City of Cape Town, the Department itself and from the Office of the Chief State Law Advisor.
These comments included recommendations ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Annual disclosure of members’ interests 2015: setting of deadline; new declaration form; Committee 2014 Annual Report
6 May 2015
The Registrar of Ethics and Members Interest noted that the Committee had met with the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and Sedibeng Municipality on 20 March 2015. She highlighted some of the observations and findings from that engagement:
●There had been a view that there should be further consultation with other provinces ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Committee Report on Department of Public Works Budget
5 May 2015
The Committee on Public Works unanimously adopted the Budget vote Report, Vote 11 of the Department of Public Works with recommendations.
Members made the following recommendations:
The Committee be updated on the assets register
Any entity involved in construction should look at the social perspective of the building.
The Department ...
Tourism
Committee Report on Department of Tourism Budget Vote No.33
29 Apr 2015
The Chairperson said the Committee had to look at the Draft Committee Report on Budget Vote No.33 and adopt the report for the next financial year. She was pleased with how the Committee and the Department of Tourism had worked well with each other; that the Committee was amongst the ...