SIXTY-ONE reports are yet to be scrutinised by respective standing committees of Parliament, says Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed- Khaiyum.
He revealed this while trying to explain in Parliament yesterday the urgent need to amend the 2019 Parliament calendar sittings between April and September.
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said with reduction of Parliament sittings from nine to seven, it would give ample time to the committees to scrutinise reports.
“These reports need to be scrutinised, tabled and debated in Parliament. We need to get through with these reports with intellectual honesty during debates,” he said.
In response, SODELPA Opposition MP Salote Radrodro said by volume most of the annual reports dated back to 2015.
“If those reports were tabled accordingly then we will not be having these kinds of backlogs. “Government really needs to look into this and don’t make this as an excuse,” she said.
Parliament sittings have been reduced from nine sittings to seven.
There will be no sitting in March and July.
