Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, 6 October 2026

So I think we're good to start. Thank

you chair.

>> Okay.

Thank you very much. Uh so suggesting

that we must start Mr. Salman.

>> We can start chair. Thank you.

>> Okay.

Can I then establish if there's

members to consider the agenda? Can you

beam the agenda properly? Mr. Adams,

I see the hand of honorable Machi.

>> Would like to to move for the adoption

of the agenda as it is. Thank you. Thank

you machi and second

>> there's a hand from Miss Bulman chair

thank you honorable Bman

>> thank you chair I second the proposal

for the agenda thank you

>> okay thank you very much members the

agenda has been seconded We

welcome all members and welcome all uh

the department of uh home affairs,

the ministry, the DG and all

your DDGs and officials, the CEO of

government printing works and all the

executive members of uh parliament and

the staff.

Um we

are going to focus on the annual report

of uh both the institution

the department of uh

home affairs and government printing

works. We note that there's a

a judgment in relation to asylum

matters that was uh

table yesterday

and also note or observe the

correspondence that is circulating from

the department to inform the officials

will request that

we will schedule the department to brief

the committee in details. It will appear

that they've already gone through the

details of the judgment.

Um we'll consider to uh be favored with

a detailed brief and how we're going to

navigate to that portfolio committee. We

are able to deal with this matter

collectively.

Um noting the two correspondences that

uh we are making reference to.

I must raise the director general that

I've received concerns from members of

the committee

that uh your department

it will appear and I think you'll be

reasoning it whether is deliberate uh to

send the presentation

presentations

late for the considerations of members.

Um I think if the notice was issued on

Sunday probably

we'll uh appreciate that uh the uh

delayed responses on your part. We met

with the department on

uh last week or so and I think the

schedule was highly noted. So members of

the committee are raising these concerns

with the chair which I concur with them

whether it's deliberately on your part

to limit members of the committee to go

through the report prepare

and also interact with our researchers

and content advisor was an area which uh

we thought we must raise with you as the

chief administrator of all the

institutions

uh in the in the in the in the portfolio

we're observing and I think we request

your response to that.

Um those are the two issues that you are

going to to to um um to raise. Members

we have received

um interaction with these two

institutions. We've also been favored

with the overall uh uh detailed brief by

the auditor general last week. We've

also requested that we meet with the

order general which we have scheduled

them to meet them this Friday in in

committee to further interrogate the

areas which they've been raised at the

level of the department and the

government printing works and also two

institutions BMA and the independent

electoral commission.

We note the progress the positive sites

that are coming out of the um report of

both the institutions. However, we we we

raise serious concerns which remains the

unqualified audit opinion of the

department of form affairs, irregular

expenditure,

um capital spending and the a targets

that were not um achieved and one of the

issues that would be interrogating

around this issues. We also note the

positive sides of the government

printing works. Um however we note the

also the irregular expenditure that are

associated foodless and wasteful

expenditure

and all uh areas that have been

identified by the order general and this

will give us an opportunity um to get a

detail uh from the department uh the

team that is going to be led here so

that we're able to deal decisively and

make sure that uh we aortion our

responsibility

of uh conducting oversight and we hope

all the team uh we've listened carefully

to the auditor general uh when they were

briefing the committee last week and we

have carefully identified certain areas

that would be expecting to interact

particularly from the CFOs of the two um

institution GPW

and the department of form affairs

Now that the agenda has been um

adopted, we'll invite the um

minister to introduce the two report

briefly and then we'll have more give

more opportunity to the two institution

led by the director general and also the

CEO of government printing works to

um h to deal with the with the with the

matter. Mr. Salmon

um can we identify the item number two

and members if the the issues you have

raised with the uh in fact the DJ may

need to

um perhaps make a comment before we

start with item number three on the

concerns that members have identified

around the uh issues of late responses.

Let me start with content advisor Mr.

Son if there

>> yes chairp person. Thank you very much.

Um Eddie received an apology for missi

and then uh honorable

also indicated that he might not have a

good connection cuz he's flying but I

see that he's in the meeting. Um, we

also had an apology from the deputy

minister, but I see he's also in the

meeting and then from the minister that

he will need to leave at 12:30 chap.

Thank you.

>> Thank you very much, director general.

>> Good morning to you, chairperson. Good

morning to the honorable members. So

good morning to the minister of form

affairs, the deputy minister of form

affairs, the DDGs that are online. I

think firstly it's to apologize chair

for the late submission. I think due to

the changes in terms of the the program

would truly apologize that the report

was not timelessly sent so that the

content advisor could then go through it

and we commit that uh we will rectify

that. Thank you chair.

>> Thank you very much uh for that. What

we'll advise is that all the

presentations

uh from henceforth must be

uh sent to the

committee by Friday

at 12:00 so that we allow the team and

members of the committee to interact

with the report until Monday and I think

that will be appreciated DJ it's not a

difficult matter because both the

portfolio committee and the department

and the institutions

we interact with these matters daily. So

I think uh we note that uh response from

you director general minister

oh sorry members is there any other

matter you want to raise on this matter.

Okay. Noted. Minister, can you introduce

briefly the two reports presentations

and then we invite the DG to

and the CEO. Thank you.

>> Thank you so much honorable chairperson.

Good morning to you. Um good morning to

all of the honorable members as well as

the officials on the call. Um we are

essentially then having a follow-up um