Government Chief Whip and Member of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Gail Teixeira says the non-attendance of government members at last Monday’s meeting was not a deliberate act and that their absences were due to national emergencies and members being ill.
Her comments were made in response to the claims of opposition Member of Parliament and fellow PAC member, Ganesh Mahipaul. In a letter published in Tuesday’s edition of the Stabroek News, Mahipaul said that the absence of government members reinforces their position that they want to decide when “PAC should meet and at what pace the PAC should be working.”