National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete has only been in Parliament three times since taking her seat, City Press reported on Sunday.

Mbete, who was redeployed from Luthuli House where she was ANC chairwoman, has not presided over a sitting of the House since the start of Parliament's new term.

She was in Parliament the day she was elected Speaker, for President Jacob Zuma's state-of-the-nation address and to present the legislature's budget vote to the National Assembly.