Following a request from the members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the Clerk of the National Assembly has secured a legal opinion on whether Standing Order 82 (2) which states that the Chairperson of the PAC must be a Member of the main Opposition in the Assembly is sacrosanct.
“As of last Wednesday I have identified a lawyer who has agreed to provide a legal opinion. He has indicated that that opinion is ready and will be sent to my office. Actually it was to be at my office [yesterday] but I was not in office due to a death in my family. [Today] I shall examine that letter and forward that advice to the PAC Chair and the various Chief Whips before advising that a meeting of the Committee should be convened,” Clerk, Sherlock Isaacs told Stabroek News yesterday.