Sunday, 4 June 2017 – The budget vote process continues this week in National Assembly and National Council of Provinces plenary sittings, together with other activities involving Parliament’s oversight and lawmaking responsibilities.
On Thursday, the National Assembly plenary sitting is scheduled to consider schedules of budget votes and the Appropriation Bill. The National Council of Provinces, meanwhile, is scheduled to hold policy debates on six budget votes over three days this week – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
At Wednesday’s National Assembly sitting, Ministers will answer questions for oral reply from Members of the Assembly. The Ministers of Public Works, Rural Development and Land Reform, Science and Technology, Small Business Development, Telecommunications and Postal Services, Trade and Industry, Tourism and Transport are expected to appear to answer the questions.
The National Assembly sitting all day on Tuesday is scheduled to consider, among others, the Border Management Authority Bill, the Extension of Security of Tenure Amendment Bill, the Courts of Law Amendment Bill, the Judicial Matters Amendment Bill and the interim report of the Portfolio Committee on Public Works on the Expropriation Bill. Also scheduled for consideration are recommendations to fill vacancies in the Commission for Gender Equality.
Committee meetings on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday are scheduled to cover a range of issues, including:
Tuesday, 6 June
- Joint Meeting: Standing Committee on Finance and Portfolio Committee on Health - Public hearings on Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill (Health Promotion Levy)
- Standing Committee on Finance - Public hearings on Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill
- Select Committee on Appropriations - Consideration of correspondence from Mayor of OR Tambo District Municipality, requesting intervention in stopping of its MIG allocation; Consideration of draft Report on hearing on Early Childhood Development Grant
Wednesday, 7 June
- Select Committee on Petitions and Executive Undertakings - Consideration and adoption of Nobuntu Fuzane Petition Report on alleged ill treatment of petitioner’s daughter while admitted at Groote Schuur Hospital and Khayelitsha District Hospital, Western Cape
- Portfolio Committee on Police - Briefing by petitioners and the Department; Briefing by Independent Police Investigative Directorate on section 9 reports/referrals by PC on Police
- Standing Committee on Public Accounts - Hearing on Department of Correctional Services irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, accruals, receivables & commitments
- Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration/ Performance Monitoring and Evaluation - Briefing by National Youth Development Agency on programmes introduced to facilitate and provide employment opportunities for youth of different levels of education and skills; Briefing by Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation on monitoring report for National Youth Policy
- Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises - Briefing by Safcol on progress made in diversification strategy and turning around the company
- Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs - Detailed report from SA Weather Services (SAWS) Board on why Parliament should not demand that board members responsible for decision pay in their individual capacity for fruitless and wasteful expenditure incurred relating to termination of contract of former SAWS CEO
- Portfolio Committee on Science and Technology - Briefings by Department of Science and Technology on Research and Development Tax Incentive Programme and on Indigenous Knowledge Bill
- Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation - Briefing by Department on future of work agenda of economic relations between South Africa and France, in wake of new Presidency in France; Briefing by Department on report of Proposed Recommendations for Institutional Reform of African Union (AU), adopted at 29 January 2017 AU Summit of Heads of States and Governments
- Portfolio Committee on Health - Briefing by Mpumalanga and Northern Cape Provincial Departments of Health on state of health care services for mentally ill patients in their provinces
- Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform - Progress report on implementation of Strengthening of Relative Rights for People Working the Land and One Household One Hectare policies
- Standing Committee on Finance - Financial sector regulation “Twin Peaks” Bill discussion (NCOP referral)
- Select Committee on Security and Justice - Briefing by IMPS-SA on increasing powers of municipal law enforcement officers (Government Notice R209 of 2002) and briefing by Department of Justice and Civilian Secretariat on policy considerations regarding increasing powers of law enforcement officers
Friday, 9 June 2017
- Constitutional Review Committee - Consideration and adoption of draft report on 2015 public submissions, presentation on 2016 public submissions
- Standing Committee on Auditor General – strategic planning workshop, including presentation by Auditor General on amendments to Public Audit Act
For more details and updates of committee sittings, please click: https://www.parliament.gov.za/whatson
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