Department of Economic Development Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report: adoption postponed

Meeting report

Introduction by the Acting Chairperson
The Chairperson welcomed the Members to the meeting and remarked that she was happy that the Committee formed a quorum.

Ms Noluthando Skaka, Committee Secretary, tendered apologies on behalf of Ms M Mohorosi (ANC) who had to attend to some urgent family business and Mr S Ngonyama (COPE) who was away for the SADC Plenary in Tanzania.

The Chairperson informed the Committee that the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) was not yet ready. The Committee staff was working on it and it was going to be ready and tabled by Thursday, 24 October 2013.
 
There were only a few days left for the current term and the Committee also wanted to table its Oversight Report for discussion. The report was going to be adopted before the end of the current term. The Chairperson proposed that the Oversight Report should be tabled as soon as possible so that Members could familiarise themselves with the content of the report.

The Chairperson explained that since the BRRR was not yet ready, the Committee was going to proceed with the other item on the agenda of the meeting which was the consideration and adoption of the Committee’s minutes of the 10 September 2013.

Committee Minutes
The Chairperson told the Members that the minutes dated 10 September 2913 were tabled last week and it was agreed that it would be adopted during this meeting.

The Chairperson asked if Mr H Hoosan (ID) was still a member of the Committee. He had been absent for a long while and hardly ever sent an apology.

Mr K Mubu (DA) replied that as far as he knew, Mr Hoosan was still a Member of the Committee.

The Chairperson asked the Committee Secretary to find out and confirm if he was still a Member of the Committee and why he was not attending meetings.

The Chairperson presented the minutes of 10 September 2013 to the Committee for consideration.

Mr X Mabasa (ANC) proposed some grammatical corrections.

Mr Mubu proposed a grammatical correction.

The Chairperson said that this was an important set of minutes and she urged Members to take their time and apply their minds to any corrections which they felt could be made to the minutes.

Ms D Tsotetsi (ANC) proposed another grammatical correction.

The Chairperson confirmed that Members had no other corrections or inputs to make before the minutes were adopted. She presented the minutes to the Committee for adoption.

Mr S Mohai moved for the minutes to be adopted with amendments. The motion was seconded by Mr Mabassa.

The meeting was adjourned.