PAC to haul up 13 ministries over issues raised by A-G

KUALA LUMPUR: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will question 13 ministries and several government agencies to clarify issues brought up in the 2013 (series three) Auditor-General report.

PAC chairman Nur Jazlan Mohamed said that the ministries and agencies involved would be called up from January next year.

“We are shocked by the number of issues in the latest report. Although some are not major and only involve small allocations but we want to know where mistakes were made,” he said at a press conference in Parliament house yesterday.

Nur Jazlan said the increased number of cases could be because it was released after Budget 2015, but it was still PAC’s responsibility to look into them.

He said there were seven categories under which the ministries and agencies were audited on, such as programmes organised, projects, technology and information technology, privatisation and company affairs.

The Education Ministry is expected to provide an explanation on RM633mil spent on 1Bestarinet programme, which did not yield expected results.

The Home Ministry and the Royal Malaysian Police, would also be hauled up to explain the management of revenue collected through traffic summons.

PAC would also investigate the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro Based Industry over the management of padi seedlings subsidies given to farmers.

The ministries to be called up include the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, the Health Ministry and the Transport Ministry.