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
  1. Whether the Brackengate Intermediate Health Facility continues to operate; if so, what are the relevant details;
  1. whether any staff contracts were terminated by 31 March 2023; if so,

(3)  whether those staff members have been replaced or are in the process of being replaced; if so, what are the relevant details?

 

 26 19 May 2023 14755

(a)   What is the detailed list of all the NGOs that have received funding from her Department in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020, (iii) 2021, (iv) 2022 and (v) 2023 to date, (b)(i) what are the specific amounts received by each NGO and (ii) what was the purpose of such funding and (c)(i) what is the number of NGOs that her Department stopped funding to during the period mentioned in (a) and (ii) what are the reasons therefore?

 33 19 May 2023 14754

(a)   What is the update with regard to the Province’s broadband rollout, (b) what is the detailed updated list of all Wi-Fi hotspots in the province, including the (i) ward numbers and (ii) local municipalities?

 32 19 May 2023 14753
  1. What is the latest update with regard to the case against a certain person, whose name has been furnished to his Department for the purpose of his reply, and (b) what assistance has been given to the victim in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020, (iii) 2021, (iv) 2022 and (v) 2023 to date?
 31 19 May 2023 14752

What is the detailed list of all the members of health facility boards in the province, including health clinics and hospitals?

 30 19 May 2023 14751

In respect of drug houses in the Western Cape:

(a)   How many of these are in council-owned houses, (b) what is the breakdown per municipality and (c) what role do municipalities play in supporting the SAPS to combat drug trade in municipality-owned houses?

 28 19 May 2023 14750

Of those applications for learner placement that his Department received by the deadline of 14 April 2023:

(a)   How many learners have been placed in schools for (i) Grade 1 and (ii) Grade 8, (b) what are the details of the schools where the learners have been placed, (c) how many learners are not yet placed at schools, (d)(i) what is the number of applications that have been received after the deadline of 14 April 2023 and (ii) how many of those learners have been placed in schools and (e)(i) what is the number of learners between (aa) grades 2 and 7 and (bb) grades 9 and 12 who have requested transfers to other schools and (ii) how many have been transferred?

 27 19 May 2023 14749
  1. What is the total number of unemployed people between the ages of 18 and 35 years in the province;
  2. whether internships are formal employment or a form of short-term employment or a form of training?
 25 19 May 2023 14748

With regard to the possibility of freezing posts:

How many vacant posts would have to be frozen due to the public sector wage increases agreed to by the National Treasury, should no additional funding be received from the National Treasury, (b) what are the different kinds of posts that have been frozen, (c) how will this affect her Department’s ability to deliver healthcare to residents and (d) how much money is the Department receiving from the Provincial Treasury to cover the anticipated shortfall?

 24 19 May 2023 14747
  1. The Department is driving a number of key energy interventions as part of the Premier’s announced energy resilience programme.  These interventions range from interventions to drive energy efficiency as evident in my Department’s Property Efficiency Report to specific infrastructure interventions such as the installation of rooftop PV on government-owned buildings, the installation of around 970 solar geysers valued at R24 Million through subsidised housing projects and the identification and release of state land for possible solar plant installations.  Together with the Department of the Premier, the Provincial Treasury, the Department of Economic Development & Tourism and the Department of Local Government, my department will also drive further specific energy interventions around the development of an appropriate Independent Power Producer procurement framework for municipalities, the development of an energy project preparation facility for municipalities, a gas-to-power options and costing analysis, an analysis of the status of the grid infrastructure in the Western Cape towards identifying grid strengthening and expansion needs and the costing thereof, and identifying and unlocking barriers to new energy generation.
  2. While the provincial government tracks the various interventions across Western Cape municipalities it is difficult to quantify the exact number of energy interventions across the province as these are driven across all three spheres of government as well as the private sector. 
  3. It is difficult to quantify the cost associated with each project given the number of role-players involved.  At a Provincial level, the Premier in his state of the Province address has set aside R 1.1 billion over the MTEF period 2023/24 to 2025/26 for energy interventions with R 89 million earmarked to local authorities in 2022/23 to fund generators, while the Mayor of Cape Town has set aside R3,9 billion to end loadshedding.  The remaining municipalities will collectively invest around R1.9 billion in energy infrastructure.

 

  1. The exact quantum of generation capability is yet to be determined given the number of role-players involved across the three spheres of government as well as the private sector. 

 

 

 23 19 May 2023 14746

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