Sunday, 21 May 2017- The budget vote debate programme resumes on Tuesday with six debates on budget votes in separate mini plenary sittings of the National Assembly and a policy debate on Higher Education in the National Council of Provinces. The six votes scheduled for consideration in the National Assembly mini plenary sittings are Trade and Industry, Tourism, National Treasury, Transport, Police and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, Arts and Culture.
On Wednesday and Thursday, six debates on budget votes per day are scheduled for mini-plenary sittings of the Assembly. Also on Wednesday and Thursday, the National Council of Provinces is scheduled to hold policy debates on Tourism, Police and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate.
The budget vote programme wraps up for the week on Friday, when three separate mini plenary sittings of the National Assembly are scheduled to debate Vote 40 (Sport and Recreation South Africa), Vote 36 (Water and Sanitation) and Vote 3 (Communications).
Besides budget-related matters, a range of other issues are up for consideration at the 37 committee meetings and one public hearing scheduled so far, including:
- A joint meeting on Tuesday of the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education and the Portfolio Committee on Transport which will briefed on progress with the Learner Transport Policy, implementation of the policy and the current state of learner transport provisioning
- The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation meeting on Tuesday will be briefed by the department on the Bucket Eradication Programme
- The Standing Committee on Appropriations, on Tuesday, to hear comment from the Human Sciences Research Council on the 2017 Appropriation Bill. The committee is also holding public hearings on the bill on Wednesday in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
- On Wednesday, the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry will hear inputs from National Treasury on proposed policy and measures to be legislated for debt relief
- The Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources on Wednesday will be briefed by the department on barriers to entry for junior and emergent miners and what can be done
- The Portfolio Committee on Health will be briefed on Wednesday on the Department’s strategies to deal with obesity and non-communicable diseases
- A joint meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance and the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry will, on Wednesday, receive responses from National Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry on submissions received during recent hearings on transformation in the financial sector
- On Thursday, the Secretary to Parliament is scheduled to brief the Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament about Parliament’s performance from the fourth quarter of the 2016/2017 financial year
For full details of House sittings and committee meetings please click: Z-list http://tinyurl.com/lwabln9; NA Programme http://tinyurl.com/ledyotp
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