Advancing that it augurs well for accountability in public spending, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC has defended passage of the motion tabled by the government side of the National Assembly, which now requires five, as opposed to three persons to form a quorum for the holding of a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting.
Underscoring the new requirement which now allows for two government members along with the existing two opposition members and the retention of the Chairman of the Committee who is drawn from the opposition, Nandlall argued that the amended composition creates greater balance.
The AG was at the time responding to opposition criticisms leveled against the amendment on his weekly Tuesday night live Facebook programme “Issues in the News,” where he rejected the parliamentary opposition’s position that the government would attempt to stymie the work of the Committee by boycotting and preventing a quorum for scrutiny of its own spending.
