Three parliamentary committee reports were on Friday evening adopted by the National Assembly following a show of full support from both the government and opposition.
The first report to be adopted was the Report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on its examination of the public accounts of Guyana for the years 2010 and 2011. This was followed by the adoption of both the First and Second Special Reports of the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Social Services of the Tenth Parliament.
PAC member and Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira noted her joy that the report, which was submitted since November 28th, 2016, was finally a subject of parliamentary discussion. She said there were 50 meetings of the committee between 2012 and 2014 in the Tenth Parliament and after considering the 2010 and 2011 Auditor General’s reports it decided to do a report on its examinations. She said there were general issues that have been affecting the budget agencies for some time and these continue to occur. These, she said,