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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Financial and Fiscal Commission submission on 2016/17 Division of Revenue Bill
23 Sep 2015
The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) presented its submissions on the 2016/2017 Division of Revenue. The main theme was that the current infrastructure and infrastructure spend was presently inadequate to meet the needs of growth, poverty and inequality. Infrastructure could leverage growth and economic development but South Africa remained beset ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Human Settlements 1st Quarter 2015/2016 performance: hearings
9 Sep 2015
The Department of Human Settlement (DHS) gave the Standing Committee on Appropriations details of its expenditure and performance against its targets for 2014/15 and for the first quarter of the current financial year.
The allocation for the Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDGs) for the previous year had been R17 billion. ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Rural Development and Land Reform & Health Departments 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance: hearing
2 Sep 2015
The National Department of Health (NDOH) and the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) presented their first quarter 2015 expenditure and performance reports to the Committee. The NDOH reported that it had recorded an expenditure of R8.70 billion or 23.9% of the annual allocation in this quarter. Outstanding ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Alignment of spending outcomes with Programme of Action by Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation; DPME 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance
1 Sep 2015
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) briefed the Committee on the progress report on the implementation of the Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) 2014-2019, and on the Department’s expenditure and performance for the first quarter of the 2015/16 financial year.
The progress report spoke to the monitoring and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
1st Quarter 2015/16 expenditure patterns of national departments: National Treasury briefing
18 Aug 2015
National Treasury said that government expenditure in the first quarter had amounted to R270.4bn, against a budget estimate of R233.6bn, resulting in a deficit of R36.8 bn. 44% of total expenditure (R119.3bn) had been for direct charges against the National Revenue Fund, and included R95.7bn transferred to the provinces under ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Reports on Eskom Special Appropriation Bill [B16-2015] & Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill [B17-2015]
23 Jun 2015
The Committee adopted the draft report of the Eskom Special Appropriation Bill, which sought to appropriate an additional amount of money for the requirements of the Department of Public Enterprises to increase the State’s equity investment in Eskom Holdings SOC Limited. The Bill provided for an amount of R23 billion ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Eskom Special Appropriation Bill [B16-2015] and Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill [B17-2015]: public hearings
19 Jun 2015
The Committee heard three submissions on the Eskom Special Appropriation Bill and Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) presentation set out the state of South Africa's renewable energy sector, and its contributions to the power supply in 2014. The CSIR's analysis ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Eskom Special Appropriation Bill [B16-2015] & Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill [B17-2015]: Parliamentary Budget Office & Financial and Fiscal Commission inputs
17 Jun 2015
The committee was briefed by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) and the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) on the Eskom Special Appropriation Bill [B16-2015] and the Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill [B17-2015].
The PBO submission was divided into four parts: (i) a background to state-owned enterprise (SOE) financing, ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Eskom Special Appropriation Bill [B16-2015]; Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill [B17-2015]: Department of Public Enterprises & Eskom briefing
12 Jun 2015
The Committee had asked for presentations by the Department of Public Enterprises and Eskom as part of its preparation for consideration of the Bills under which government would be making special appropriations to Eskom; the Committee had received prior presentations on the Bills themselves. The Department of Public Enterprises firstly ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Special Appropriations Bill [B16-2015]; Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill (2008/09-2010/11 financial years) [B17-2015]: National Treasury briefing
10 Jun 2015
National Treasury presented the contents of the two Bills. Essentially the Eskom Special Appropriations Bill provides for government through the Department of Public Enterprises to purchase R23 billion worth of equity in Eskom, subject to payment of the proceeds from the sale of certain non-strategic assets into the National Revenue ...