DRAFT PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS

 

2008

Cluster Four:

 

Departments of Land Affairs, Agriculture, Environmental Affairs &Tourism and Water Affairs and Forestry

 

FIRST TERM

 

DATE

ISSUES TO BE CONSIDERED

VENUE

TIME

 

Tuesday 15th January 2008

 

Consideration and Adoption of Committee’s 1st Term Programme for 2008

 

Discussion and Planning around the Committee’s Strategic Planning Workshop

 

Consideration and Adoption of any outstanding Minutes and Report.

 

 

S26 – NCOP Building

 

10h00 – 13h00

 

Mon 28 Jan -  Friday 1 Feb 08

 

Members training (as per Parliamentary Programme)

 

 

 

 

Mon 4 Feb 08

 

Members training (as per Parliamentary Programme)

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 5 Feb 08

 

Briefing by South African Tourism on what has been done to accommodate the handicap and how this has been implemented, especially with regards to the grading of the various types of holiday accommodation for 2010.

 

Consideration and Adoption of Minutes

 

 

S26 – NCOP Building

 

10h00 – 13h00

 

Tue 5 Feb 08

 

Members training (as per Parliamentary Programme)

 

 

 

 

Wed 6 Feb 08 

 

Members training (as per Parliamentary Programme

 

 

 

 

 

Tue 12 Feb 08

 

Briefing by the Department of Environmental Affairs & Tourism on the progress made in streamlining  the Environmental Impact Assessment process

 

Consideration and Adoption of Minutes

 

V227 – Old Assembly

 

10h00 – 13h00

 

Wed 20th Feb 08

 

Briefing by the Departments of Agriculture and Labour in response to issues raised during the Taking Parliament to the People programme in the Western Cape (Stellenbosch)

 

Consideration and Adoption of Minutes

 

GH 41 – Goodhope Building

 

10h00 – 13h00

 

Tues 26 Feb 08

 

Briefing by the Global White Lion Protection Trust and SANParks on concerns surrounding the white lions.

 

Consideration and Adoption of Minutes

 

 

M46 – Marks Building

 

10h00 – 13h00

 

27th – 29th February 08

(Provisional)

 

Joint Strategic Planning Workshop of the Select Committees on Land & Environmental Affairs AND Public Services.

 

 (Please Note: Subject to Approval by

   House Chairperson)

 

 

To be Identified

 

 

3 - 4 March 08

 

 

Attendance by Committee Members at the DEAT Annual Strategic Planning

Workshop

 

 

Kirstenbosch Gardens

 

 

Mon 10 March – Fri 15 March 08

 

 

Taking Parliament to the People

 

 

 

Tues 18 – 21st  March 08

 

Joint follow-up visit to Pniel (Stellenbosch) by both the Select Committee for Land & Environmental Affairs and Public Services.

 

 

 

 

V226 – Old Assembly Building

 

10h00 – 13h00

 

Tues 25 March 08

 

Briefing by the Department of Land Affairs on the progress of the Restitution process and the implementation of the Communal Land rights Act.

 

AND

 

Briefing, consideration and ratification of the International Agreement establishing the Africa Institute for the Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous and otherWastes, tabled in terms of section 231(2) of the Constitution, 1996.

 

and

 

(b) Explanatory Memorandum to the Agreement establishing the Africa

Institute for the Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous

and Other Wastes.

 

 

 

 

V227 - Old Assembly Building

 

10h00 – 16h00