KUALA LUMPUR: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has identified two ministries that will be hauled up immediately over respective weaknesses outlined in the second series of the 2015 Auditor-General's Report tabled on Monday.

The Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry will be questioned for its poor management of the Cooking Oil Stabilisation Scheme, which cost the Government an extra RM2.92mil in subsidies.

The Health Ministry will also be queried over weaknesses in the management of medicinal supplies at health clinics nationwide.

"We will call them up at the next (Parliament) sitting. There are other ministries and agencies we wish to call up as well, but these two are the priority for now," PAC chairman Datuk Hasan Arifin (pic) told reporters after a briefing with Auditor-General Tan Sri Ambrin Buang in Parliament on Monday.

Hasan also announced that the PAC would conduct a follow-up audit on the Education Ministry's 1BestariNet project.

"The PAC will visit schools in urban and rural areas, as well as the interiors, to review the reception and performance of 1BestariNet among students and teachers," he said.

However, he said the committee had no plans to question former deputy prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who was education minister when the project first rolled out in 2011.

"We will not call him up because it is not necessary," said Hasan, who is also Rompin MP.

The 1BestariNet project, which would have cost the Government RM4bil over 15 years, had previously come under fire by the Auditor-General and the PAC for failure to deliver on time due to poorly-awarded contracts and suspicious expenses.

The project was supposed to provide 4G broadband connectivity and a virtual learning environment (VLE) to 10,000 schools nationwide.

TAGS / KEYWORDS:
PAC , Auditor General s Report , Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry , Cooking oil , Subsidies , Health Ministry

Source:
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2016/11/21/ag-report-pac-to-haul-up-two-ministries/