After more than a month of delays, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will meet on Monday, when it is expected to consider and act on a legal opinion secured by Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs on whether government could assume its chairmanship.
The advice secured at the behest of the Committee suggests that the governing PPP/C, with its majority, can for the day at least elect a chair from its numbers so as to move a motion to remove the substantive chair, APNU+AFC Member David Patterson.
The opinion was provided in response to a request for Isaacs that he be advised whether Standing Order 95 (4) overrides Standing Order 82 (2) whereby a member who is not a member of the main opposition in the Assembly, in the absence of the Chairperson, can be elected Chairperson of the PAC for the day of his or her election.
