Questions and Replies

The right of Members to put questions to Ministers is an important part of ensuring the executive authority’s accountability to the Provincial Parliament. Questions may be put to Ministers related to their spheres of responsibility. Replies to questions are either given orally in the House or in writing. The replies to oral questions are recorded in Hansard.

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(a) What are her Department’s plan or strategy regarding its readiness for a possible second wave of COVID-19 infections and (b) what are the deliverables of this plan or strategy?

 17 23 October 2020 10464

Last year the Minister announced the DCAS relief fund, which helped 715 individuals in the arts, culture and heritage sectors, as well as several sport federations, coaches, technical assistants and athletes:

Whether there is a plan to continue this relief fund once again; if so, (a) what is the proposed budget for this, (b) how many individuals are estimated to benefit from this and (c) what is the time frame from when applications will open to when the outcome of the applications are made known?

 

 

 

 14 12 February 2021 10463

Whether the Western Cape has a tourism recovery plan; if not, why not; if so, (a) what are the relevant details and (b) can a copy of the plan be provided?

 16 23 October 2020 10462

With regard to the powers and functions of hospital boards and clinic and community health centre committees:

(1) Whether any committees and/or boards have taken any measures to improve the quality of service at their respective facilities in (a) 2019/20 and (b) 2020/21 to date; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;

(2) whether any committees and/or boards conducted scheduled visits at their respective facilities in (a) 2019/20 and (b) 2020/21 to date; if not, why not; if so, (i) what are the relevant details and (ii) what were the recommendations forwarded after each visit;

(3) whether all the facilities in the province have functional committees and/or boards; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

 15 23 October 2020 10461

Considering the current challenges facing the arts, culture and sport sectors:

Whether she has received any plans from the national Department of Sport, Arts and Culture on its intention to roll out the next stage of any COVID-19 relief funding; if so, (a) what are the details of any such plans and (b) how will it particularly affect those in the arts, culture and sport sector in the Western Cape?

 13 12 February 2021 10459

With regard to her Department’s PPE procurement:

  1. Which company or companies won the tender to supply PPE to the schools in the province, (b) what (i) are the details of the owners and/or directors of each company and (ii) is value of each contract and (c) what is the business address of each company that supplied PPE to the schools in the province?

 

 12 12 February 2021 10458

With regard to the Auditor-General of South Africa’s findings on the special reports on the financial management of the government’s COVID-19 initiatives:

  1. What are the (a) findings that have been made against her Department and (b) remedial action that has been taken against the respective authorities involved in the procurement;
  1. whether any quality control measures have been put in place to ensure that schools receive the correct number of material and material of the correct quality, which had been purchased; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
  1. whether her Department has incurred or risks incurring (a) wasteful and fruitless expenditure and/or (b) irregular expenditure as a result of the poor control measures related to its PPE expenditure?

 

 11 12 February 2021 10457

With regard to the case against the principal of the Grove Primary School:

  1. (a) What efforts have she and her Department made to ensure that sum-mons 16290/19 at the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court is enforced before the principal retires, (b) what measures have been implemented to ensure the proper and full recovery of the funds that were misappropriated and received by the principal and or other members of the school governing body;
  1. whether she can provide further details of the progress of the legal proceedings, pending or otherwise, related to this matter; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
 10 12 February 2021 10456

(1)   Whether the City of Cape Town has contracted any private security companies to conduct safety operations in the city; if so, what are the relevant details, including (a) a detailed list of the companies, (b)(i) the value and (ii) the duration of the contracts and (c)(i) the areas where these companies have been deployed and (ii) the contract specifications;

(2)   whether there are plans to deploy private security companies in the crime hotspot areas across the city; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

 

 9 12 February 2021 10455

1. What are the (a) number of employees, (b) number of vacancies, (c) personnel expenditure and (d) number of agency personnel and related costs for (i) community health clinics, (ii) community health centres, (iii) districts hospitals, (iv) psychiatric hospitals, (v) regional hospitals, (vi) TB hospitals, (vii) central hospitals and (viii) tertiary hospitals;

2. (a) what is the detailed breakdown of the expenditure to date for the 2020/21 financial year for each of the categories in (1)(i) to (viii) above, (b)(i) what is her Department’s expenditure on agency personnel, (ii) what are the details of the agencies from which the Department procured the services of personnel and (iii) what amount was received by each agency;

3. (a) what is the number of staff members who are permanently employed by her Department and (b) how many are on agency payrolls in the province?

 14 23 October 2020 10454

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