Outstanding Committee Business

Meeting report

Opening Remarks
The Chairperson informed Members that the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) briefing had been postponed for the 3^rd Term. The Committee would only deal with in-house issues.

Dr J Kloppers-Lourens (DA) suggested that the Committee should in future adopt minutes within a week.

Ms Shanaaz Isaacs, Committee Secretary, explained that copies of the minutes were distributed yesterday afternoon. Members had access to draft unedited version of the minutes 3 days after each meeting and they were available on the H Drive on the Parliamentary Server.

Mr M Nonkonyana (ANC) suggested Members could be alerted by text messages to inform them that copies of minutes were available in their in trays. It would be better to consider minutes within a week’s time while the issues were still fresh in their minds. He then suggested that the Committee should go through the minutes in ten minutes and adopt them.

Dr Kloppers-Lourens objected to that saying 10 minutes would not do justice to eleven sets of minutes. She then asked whether the Committee was obliged to adopt the minutes on the 19 June 2013.
 

The Chairperson replied the positive and he concurred with Mr Nonkonyane’s suggestion about considering minutes within a week. He said that sometimes the Committee could be bogged down by briefings and other issues, but that could be an exception to the rule. If the Committee was too busy then minutes should be adopted on the nearest possible dates if a week was impossible.
 

Minutes
Consideration of Outstanding Minutes

Minutes dated 12 June 2013

The Chairperson tabled the document for consideration.

 

Dr Kloppers-Lourens asked Ms Isaacs to list the names of delegates that were present in all the minutes.

 

The Chairperson warned Members that they should raise issues when they came to it and not haphazardly.

Mr Nonkonyana referred to page 3 and noted that he was not part of that meeting. However, he asked why the Chairperson had allowed Members who had abstained from voting to communicate their caucus position because the report was already adopted.

The Chairperson explained that the report was adopted on condition that Members would take the decision to adopt and report back to their respective caucuses.

 

Ms P Mocumi (ANC) made a minor grammatical amendment on page 3.

Ms Mocumi moved for adoption and Dr Kloppers-Lourens seconded the motion, the minutes were adopted with minor amendments.

Committee Minutes dated 5 June 2013

The Chairperson tabled the document for consideration.

 

Mr Nonkonyana referred to paragraph 3.3 and made a minor amendment.

Dr Kloppers-Lourens asked why the delegation from the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) was not reflected in the minutes.

Ms Isaacs explained that she could not list all 20 people who were part of the delegation while only 3 people spoke during the meeting. She said that she could avail the delegation list to Dr Kloppers-Lourens.

The Chairperson said that the final draft would reflect the names of all the delegates.

Mr Nonkonyana moved for adoption and Ms Mocumi seconded the motion. The minutes were adopted with minor amendments.

Committee Minutes dated 8 May 2013
The Chairperson tabled the document for consideration.

 

Mr Nonkonyana pointed out that his name was not reflected in the list of the Members that were present at that meeting.

Ms Mocumi asked about the responses to the questions posed in paragraphs 3.2.8 and 3.2.9.

Ms Isaacs explained that minutes captured only salient points rather than writing down everything that was discussed at the meeting.

The Chairperson replied that everything was recorded and Ms Isaacs could provide the Committee with recordings.

Ms Z Ndlazi (ANC) moved for adoption and Ms Plaatjie (ANC) seconded the motion and minutes were adopted with minor amendment.

Committee Minutes dated 18 May 2013
The Chairperson tabled the document for consideration.

 

Mr Nonkonyana mentioned that there was no quorum in that meeting, only three Members had attended. He said that the Committee could not make any decisions because of quorum but they could only ratify what was presented to them.

The Chairperson said that the late adoption of minutes often lead to some of the meaning and the discussion getting lost as a result Members often did not remember what was even discussed in that particular meeting.

Ms Plaatjie moved for adoption and Ms Mocumi seconded the motion. The minutes were adopted without amendments.

Committee Minutes dated 17 April

The Chairperson tabled the document for consideration.

 

Ms Mocumi asked whether Mr Mullins was a Committee Researcher or Content Advisor.

 

Tthe Chairperson clarified that he was the Content Advisor for the Committee.

Ms Mocumi moved and Dr Kloppers-Lourens seconded the motion. The minutes were adopted without amendments

 

Committee Minutes dated 20 March 2013
The Chairperson tabled the document for consideration.

 

Mr Nonkonyane noted that his name was not reflected on the list Members that were present at that meeting.

Ms Plaatjie moved for the adoption and Ms Ndlazi seconded the motion. The minutes were approved with this minor change.

Committee Minutes dated 13 March 2013
The Chairperson tabled the document for consideration.

 

Mr Nonkonyana noted that his apology was not reflected in the minutes.

The Chairperson replied that Ms Isaacs would look into the apologies that were handed in on that day.

Ms Plaatjie moved for adoption and Dr Kloppers-Lourens seconded the motion. The minutes were adopted without amendments.

Committee Minutes dated 6 March 2013
The Chairperson tabled the document for consideration.

 

Mr Nonkonyana asked about the follow up to the letter specified in paragraph 3.2.2

Ms Isaacs replied that Ms Shiela Cammerer’s term of Office as an Ambassador in Bulgaria had come to an end. Correspondence with the new Ambassador would continue giving background to the issue of Bursaries.

The Chairperson suggested that the Committee should then write a letter to the new Ambassador and clarify the issue.

 

Dr Kloppers-Lourens concurred.

Mr Nonkonyana moved for adoption and Dr Kloppers-Lourens seconded the motion. The minutes were adopted subject to writing a letter to the South African Ambassador in Bulgaria.

 

Committee Minutes dated 27 February 2013
The Chairperson tabled the document for consideration.

Mr Nonkonyana moved for adoption and Dr Kloppers-Lourens seconded the motion. The minutes were approved without amendments.

Committee Minutes dated 20 February 2013
The Chairperson tabled the document for consideration.

Mr Nonkonyana moved for adoption and Dr Kloppers-Lourens seconded the motion. The minutes were adopted without any amendments.

The meeting was adjourned.