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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Question Question Number Date Question Link

With regard to the Province’s quarter 3 procurement disclosure report for the 2020/21 financial year:

  1. (a) What is the detailed list of all the items that were procured by each department and entity, including the
  1. quantity and
  2. unit price and

(b) what are the details of the BBBEE compliance of all the suppliers that were contracted by the departments and entities;

2. whether his Department ensured strict adherence to the BBBEE provisions and to local content during PPE expenditure; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

 5 12 March 2021 10693
  1. (a) What is the breakdown of the COVID-19 roll-out programme in terms of (i) the number of people who have been inoculated, (ii) their age groups, (iii) their race, (iv) their sex and (v) the health facilities where they work as at latest date for which information is available and (b) what (i) information is required when people register for the vaccine and (ii) measures are in place to prevent healthcare workers from registering their family members who are not healthcare workers;

 

  1. whether there are people who are not healthcare workers or in the category of people who should not be inoculated in the first phase who have cheated the process and got inoculated; if so, what are the relevant details?
 4 12 March 2021 10692

 

  1. Whether her Department has a regional database for foster-care parents; if so, what norms and standards has her Department put in place in this regard;

 

  1. whether her Department has a Provincial Child Protection Strategy; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
 3 12 March 2021 10691
  1. (a) How many old-age homes in Mitchells Plain are funded by her Department and (b) how are they identified for funding;

 

  1. whether there is currently a waiting list for people who need this service; if so, what are the relevant details;

 

  1. how (a) often and (b) many visits do officials undertake to the old-age homes in Mitchells Plain in order to monitor compliance with norms and standards, including COVID-19 regulations?
 2 12 March 2021 10690

With regard to early childhood development (ECD) centres in the province:

 

  1. Whether there is a policy on the (a) number of ECD centres allowed in one geographical area and (b) ratio of children to ECD practitioners allowed in each class; if not, why not; if so, who monitors the implementation of this policy;
  2. whether any unannounced visits are undertaken by her Department to ECD centres to monitor compliance with COVID-19 regulations; if so, how many unannounced visits does her Department conduct to ECD centres per month;
  3. 3) (a) how many ECD centres are currently open in Mitchells Plain and of these (b) how many are funded by the Department of Social Development
 1 12 March 2021 10689

With reference to the Mau Mau Housing Project:

(a)   What is the current status of the Mau Mau Housing Project, (b) what are the details of the housing allocations in the Mau Mau Housing Project, (c) how many housing opportunities are there in the Mau Mau Housing Project, (d) how many houses have been completed, (e) how many houses are still to be completed, (f) what are the (i) delays and (ii) causes of the delays with the project and (g) how will the delays be resolved?

 17 16 July 2021 10688

With reference to the current status of the KTC Housing Development Project:

(a) What are the details of the housing allocations in the KTC Housing Development Project, (b) how many Breaking New Ground (BNG) houses have been constructed, (c) how many houses are still to be constructed, (d) what is the status of Phase 3 of the KTC Housing Development Project, (e) when will the development be completed, (f) what are the plans for the KTC informal settlement and its future development and (g) when will they be implemented and completed?

 16 16 July 2021 10687

With regard to residents of KTC and Nyanga claiming that 100 families in KTC were to be included in the Forest Village Housing Project in Eerste River and that this has not happened:

(a) What are the details of the housing allocations in the Forest Village Housing Project, (b) why were housing opportunities in the project not allocated to KTC residents, (c) whether there are any plans to include 100 beneficiaries from KTC in this project; if so, (i) when and (ii) how will the beneficiaries be identified; if not, (iii) why not and (iv) what are the relevant details?

 15 16 July 2021 10686

With reference to the announcement by the national Department of Water and Sanitation that it will be reintroducing the Blue Dot and Green Dot water programmes after seven years of being inactive:

Whether the Province has established any alternative initiatives in the absence of the national Blue Dot and Green Dot water programmes; if not, why not; if so, (a) what are the relevant details, (b) what are the trends indicated from reports emanating from the aforementioned alternatives and (c) what impact has the inactivity of the programmes had on the quality of water in the province?

 14 16 July 2021 10685

With reference to wasted vaccines, including spoiled COVID-19 vaccines:

(a) What is the (i) percentage and (ii) total number of wasted COVID-19 vaccines in the province from the start of the phase 1b rollout until the latest date for which information is available, (b) why did the wastage of vaccines occur and (c) what are the details of the efforts implemented to (i) minimise and (ii) monitor the waste of vaccines in the province?

 13 16 July 2021 10684

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