Acknowledging the absence of former Permanent Secretaries (PS) and Regional Executive Officers (REO) from sittings of the Public Accounts Committee, government member Gail Teixeira on Monday said that the committee must consider what sort of action it must take to put a stop to the absenteeism.
The fact that former accounting officers have been failing to show up has been affecting progress in the review of the 2017 and 2018 Auditor General’s (AG) reports as current accounting officers are unable to provide the detailed answers during scrutiny of the report. According to Teixeira, it is unfair for the current accounting officers to be bombarded with questions on matters they are not familiar with.
