{"id":915968,"date":"2022-01-13T14:13:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/13\/mps-to-receive-preliminary-report-on-parliament-fire-on-friday\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T14:13:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:13:06","slug":"mps-to-receive-preliminary-report-on-parliament-fire-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/mps-to-receive-preliminary-report-on-parliament-fire-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs to receive preliminary report on Parliament fire on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cape Town – Parliamentarians will receive a preliminary report on the fire that gutted the national legislature when the National Assembly committee on financial management of the institution meets on Friday.<\/p>\n

The planned meeting is a sequel to another held last week where many questions by MPs went unanswered after the administration asked to respond in writing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Briefing the joint meeting of programming committees for both Houses on Thursday, chairperson of committees Cedric Frolick said acting secretary of Parliament Baby Tyawa would table her report at the scheduled meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the fist meeting there were specific question in the role of the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) as well as security issues around Parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be responses after acting secretary has given a detailed report in a Friday meeting to some of the questions asked,\u201d Frolick said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He told the MPs that following the fire, the important issue has been to allow investigations to continue, but there were certain difficulties.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe National Assembly chamber together with the offices around and above have been completely gutted. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey have been rendered by engineers from DPWI to be unsafe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThat has impact on the work the police are doing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Frolick noted that there is a report from the City of Cape Town\u2019s fire department, which sets out its assessment on the fire at the precinct.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat report is no way replacing the forensic work that needs to be done inside the buildings to try to come to the point to say where and how the fire started.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThat is work of the police and they are continuing with that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Frolick also said Parliament has set up different work streams that focused on matters to deal with, including investigations, contingency arrangements for State of the Nation address, tabling of budget speech, security and communication.<\/p>\n

He also said the one of the prioritises was the alternative office space for affected parties such the ANC, PAC, GOOD and NFP, whose offices have been destroyed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe do not know at this stage the extent of destruction that has taken place there because the building has been declared unsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frolick said arrangement have been under way to prepare for the hosting of Sona at Cape Town City Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the fire started there was immediate consultation and discussion between NCOP chairperson, National Assembly Speaker and leaders of political parties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis was followed up on Monday when she had a meeting with all parties and chief whips to brief them on developments.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll outstanding matters will go to the meeting on Friday to be attended by the presiding officers,\u201d he said in reference to meeting where Tyawa would table a preliminary report on the fire and security issues.<\/p>\n

Frolick told the MPs to be mindful that the preliminary report would still be updated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cParties are to be taken on board as info becomes available,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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