BILL WATCH
PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES SERIES 7/2023
[27th February 2023]
Open Committee Meetings : Tuesday 28th February to Thursday 2nd March
There were no open committee meetings today, Monday 27th February. But the committee meetings listed below will be open to members of the public as observers only on Tuesday 28th February, Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd March. Members of the public proposing to attend a meeting should use the Kwame Nkrumah Avenue entrance to Parliament near Third Street and remember that IDs will be required to gain entry.
Tuesday 28th February at 10 am
Portfolio Committee: Local Government and Public Works
Oral evidence from Ngwenya of the Coalition for Market and Liberal Solutions on its petition on the right to shelter.
Venue: Government Caucus Room.
Portfolio Committee: Health and Child Care
Oral evidence from the Nurse Aide Association relating to its registration as a Council and enactment of an enabling Act.
Venue: National Assembly Chamber.
Portfolio Committee: Lands, Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Resettlement
Oral evidence from COTTCO on its preparedness for the cotton marketing season.
Venue: Senate Chamber.
Joint SDGs and Indigenisation and Empowerment Committees and
Portfolio Committee on Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation
Oral evidence with the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development on empowerment programmes in the mining sector.
Venue: Committee Room No. 413.
Wednesday 1st March at 10 am
Portfolio Committee: Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development
Oral evidence from (1) the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development and (2) State Universities Employees – on the petition regarding the grading system for employees for higher education institutions. [This was deferred from the previous week.]
Venue: National Assembly Chamber.
Thursday 2nd March at 10 am
Portfolio Committee: Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation
Oral evidence from the Attorney-General’s Office on progress made towards the drafting of the National Youth Bill.
Venue: Committee Room No. 2.
