KUALA LUMPUR: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will haul up the Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry and Health Ministry over issues outlined in the second series of the 2015 Auditor-General's Report tabled today.
PAC chairman Datuk Hasan Arifin said the Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry will be asked on the palm oil subsidy while Health Ministry on the hospital management, maintenance and supplies of medicine.
"We will call them up at the next (Parliament) sitting. There are also other ministries to be called but these two are the priority," he said after a briefing with Auditor-General Tan Sri Ambrin Buang in Parliament.
Hasan also announced that the AG Department will conduct follow-up audit on 1BestariNet Project due to multiple complaints from teachers and the public.
PAC would visit selected schools to find out more about the 1BestariNet project.
“It will comprise all types of schools including those in urban and rural areas, vernacular, primary and secondary, to identify issues faced by them,” he said.
Ambrin who was present, said the follow-up audit for the project was necessary as it involved a large investment by the government and the PAC wanted to know the effectiveness of the project.
“We want to see the project’s impact to the schools and if it has changed anything,” said Ambrin.
The 1BestariNet was introduced by the former deputy prime minister when he was Education Minister in 2010.
The project serves to provide 4G broadband connectivity to over 10,000 schools for virtual learning environment.
The 2015 Auditor-General's Report (Series 2), which was tabled in Parliament today, saw 77 performance audit and 19 management conducted at federal and state levels as well as for statutory bodies.