Water Affairs and Forestry; Road Accident Fund; Interaction with Justice officials; Committee Programme

Public Accounts (SCOPA)

13 August 2002

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STANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
13 AUGUST 2002
WATER AFFAIRS AND FORESTRY; ROAD ACCIDENT FUND; INTERACTION WITH JUSTICE OFFICIALS; COMMITTEE PROGRAMME: DISCUSSION

Chair: Mr. F Beukman (NNP)

Documents Handed Out:
SCOPA Programme for 2002 (See Appendix)

SUMMARY
Standing Committee held its first meeting discussing procedural and administrative matters. These included discussion on Water Affairs and Forestry issue; international trip; Road Accident Fund; Justice officials and committee programme.

MINUTES
The Chair, Mr. F Beukman, pointed out that regarding the Water Affairs and Forestry issue, SCOPA would ask the office of the Auditor-General to furnish them with a status report on the investigation of the matter.

Regarding the suspension of the Road Accident Fund Chief Information Officer, Mr. W Kannermeyer, and (ANC) pointed out that it is important that SCOPA follows up on the matter, however, the Auditor-General is also involved in the investigation.

A member suggested that a letter should be written to summon the RAF board and give an account of the situation around the suspension of the Chief Information Officer. The chair agreed that SCOPA would summon the RAF board and would also allocate beforehand, one of its internal work groups to prepare specifically for the occasion through their own investigations.

Regarding discussion with Justice officials, the chair pointed out that arranged interaction between SCOPA and Justice on issues regarding report backs from Justice had not taken place this year. He added that it is precisely for this reason that the feeling within SCOPA is that they should meet with officials the following day to hear progress and issues around the work of the Department of Justice.
In this regard, he added that the Chief Financial Officer of the department would be in attendance to brief the committee.

Meeting adjourned.

Appendix

STANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

PROGRAMME: 2002

This program has been adopted up until 26 June 2002

MARCH 2002
20	Wednesday	Hearing Defence
21	Thursday	Constituency period begins
APRIL 2002
19	Friday	Constituency period ends
21 - 23	Sunday - Tuesday	APAC: Council of Delegates (Sunday: 16:00 - 18:00) Training Monday & Tuesday) Cape Town
24	Wednesday	Election of Chairperson Presentation of AG's 2^nd General Report (2000 - 2001)
MAY 2002
1	Wednesday	Public Holiday - Worker's Day
8	Wednesday	Hearing Parliament Water Affairs and Forestry
15	Wednesday	Hearing Legal Aid Board *Pending resolutions* Correctional Services
22	Wednesday	Hearing Transport, Road Accident Fund, SA Rail Commuter Corporation & Transport agencies
24	Friday afternoon	Meeting with the DG and CFO of Justice
26 - 28	Sunday - Tuesday	APAC Annual Conference & AGM - Kimberley

JUNE 2002
4	Tuesday	Groups + Preparation for Labour hearing
5	Wednesday	Hearing Labour, Compensation Fund, SETAs & UIF
10	Monday	SCOPA workshop
11	Tuesday	Preparation for RAF hearing in the afternoon (House is sitting in the morning as well)
12	Wednesday	Hearing RAF
18	Tuesday	Preparation for hearing on AG's General Report
19	Wednesday	Hearing Items from AG's 2^nd General Report
21	Friday (14:00-16:30)	Meeting with DG of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology on State Theatre
25	Tuesday	Groups (Resolutions)
26	Wednesday	*Pending resolutions, e.g.* Unauthorised expenditure Statistics SA Social Development Education GCIS Foreign Affairs ICD
28	Friday	Constituency period begins
JULY 2002
26	Friday	Constituency period ends
29 Jul until 2 Aug		Committee week
AUGUST 2002
5-7		Members' Training
13	Tuesday	Groups Plenary NB. NA debate on arms deal reports
14	Wednesday	09:00 - 10:30 Task team report 10:30 - 13:00 Interaction with Justice officials
20	Tuesday	09:00 - 10:30 Groups 10:30 - 13:00 Preparation for hearing Public Works
21	Wednesday	Presentation by OAG on the audit process Pending resolutions, e.g: Labour Environmental Affairs and Tourism Transport Parliament Legal Aid Board Water affairs and Forestry AG's General Report II (2000 - 2001)
27	Tuesday	Groups Plenary Preparation for hearing National Lotteries Board
28	Wednesday	Hearing Public works
30	Friday	KPMG: training
SEPTEMBER 2002
		All hearings after September will be reevaluated after an assessment of the new reports has been done.
3	Tuesday	Groups Plenary Annual reports: 2001-2002
4	Wednesday	Hearing National Lotteries Board
6	Friday	Visit to the Harbour and CT international airport
10	Tuesday	Groups Plenary Preparation for hearing Living Marine Resources
11	Wednesday	Tabling AG's 1^st General Report (2001 - 2002)
17	Tuesday	Groups Plenary *Pending Resolutions, e.g* National Lotteries Board Public Works
18	Wednesday	*Hearing:* Marine Living Resources
24	Tuesday	Heritage Day
25	Wednesday	Special Report: Learner Support Administration
27	Friday	Constituency period begins
OCTOBER 2002
11	Friday	Constituency period ends
15	Tuesday	Groups Plenary Preparation for hearing: SAPS
16	Wednesday	Plenary *Pending resolutions* Unauthorised expenditure Marine Living Resources
21-22	Monday & Tuesday	APAC skills training
23	Wednesday	Hearing SAPS
29	Tuesday	Groups Plenary
30	Wednesday	Plenary Pending resolutions
NOVEMBER 2002
1	Friday	Visit to courts
5	Tuesday	Groups Plenary
6	Wednesday	Plenary Finalisation of outstanding matters
12	Tuesday	Groups Plenary
13	Wednesday	Adoption of the Committee Annual Report Finalisation of outstanding matters
15-		International Study tour
18	Monday	Constituency period begins
DECEMBER 2002
13	Friday	Constituency period ends
16	Monday	Leave period begins

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