24-07-2025
- Business
- New Straits Times
PAC to summon 3 ministries, Felcra over AG's findings
KUALA LUMPUR: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will summon three ministries and a government agency over matters flagged in the Auditor General's Report 2/2025 on the activities of ministries, departments, statutory bodies and federal government-owned companies.
PAC chairman Datuk Mas Ermieyati Samsuddin said the committee will call the Rural and Regional Development Ministry and Felcra Bhd to provide an explanation regarding the management of palm oil plantation procurement.
"The committee will also summon the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry to provide an explanation regarding the management of price control and cooking oil subsidies, as well as the Finance Ministry to brief on the governance of the tender procurement committee.
"The date of the proceedings and briefings for all three related matters will be determined later," she said in a statement.
She said the PAC proceedings on the issues highlighted in the report will focus on topics identified as involving the 3Ps: misappropriation, abuse of power, and waste, as well as 1K, which is leakages.
Earlier today, Mas Ermieyati said the committee received a briefing from the AG regarding the reports, which were tabled in the Dewan Rakyat on Monday and debated on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Mas Ermieyati said the PAC will table two follow-up action reports by two ministries on July 28 and July 29.
"First, on the Home Ministry's follow-up actions on the recommendations of the PAC report regarding the procurement of the Foreign Workers Centralised Management System.
"Second, on the Rural and Regional Development Ministry, Sarawak Rural Water Supply Department, and the Sabah State Water Department's follow-up actions on the recommendations of the PAC report regarding the management of rural water supply projects in Sarawak and Sabah."
