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The Integrity Committee is looking into the misappropriation of 261 million dinars by the former head of Akre College of Education; the Energy Committee discussed the Iraqi government's insufficient allocation of heating kerosene for families in Kurdistan Region. 

Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami on an official visit to Germany continued a series of meetings with MPs of the Bundestag in Berlin. He thanked the MPs for Germany’s support to Kurdistan Region, and both sides welcomed more inter-parliamentary ties. 

The Speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament Dr. Rewas Faiq on 28 November congratulated the Kurdistan Toilers Party on holding their 10th congress, and on the reelection of Balen Abdullah as the party's General Secretary. Dr. Faiq sent the following congratulatory message to Mr. Abdullah.

Deputy Speaker Hawrami in Berlin on 27 November met with MPs Paul Ziemiak, General Secretary of the CDU, and Bijan Djir-Sarai, foreign policy spokesman of the FDP. He also visited KRG Representative Mr. Dilshad Barzani, who accompanied him to the Bundestag meetings.

Speaker Rewas Faiq on 27 November said that the best way to draft the Kurdistan Constitution is to find common ground and build consensus, at a Koya University conference on drafting the constitution.

A summary of recent meetings of the Relations and Kurdish Diaspora Committee, Integrity Committee, Health Committee, and Endowments and Religious Affairs Committee. 

At the invitation of Germany’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami on 25 and 26 November attended the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum.

Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Dr Rewas Faiq on 25 November spoke at the launch of a 16-day campaign on combating violence against women, organised by the Kurdistan High Council of Women’s Affairs in Erbil.

26 November – Three committees held a meeting to prepare their joint report on the Commercial Advertising Bill (draft law), which will be scheduled for debate and discussion at a Parliament sitting in the near future.

25 November - Parliament's Reconstruction and Investment Committee held their first regular meeting since being established as a standalone committee earlier this month. The members discussed their priorities of looking into road, highway and other construction and into investment projects.