Speaker tells ministers, deputy ministers to arrive early for Dewan Rakyat
KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul reminded members of the administration to arrive early to answer questions and avoid unseemly absences during proceedings.
On a recent Dewan Rakyat session, Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul reminded administration members and deputy ministers to arrive promptly for proceedings to answer questions and prevent unexcused absences, citing an incident from the previous morning sitting where several questions remained unanswered due to the relevant parties being absent.
Johari expressed concern over the House's image, urging administration members to arrive early even if their question number was later in the sequence. Earlier, opposition MPs had taken note of the Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad and his deputy, Deputy Minister Hanifah Hajar Taib, not attending the oral question-and-answer session, following Deputy Speaker Alice Lau's call for Zahir Hassan (PH-Wangsa Maju) to ask the third question concerning the Health Ministry as per the Order Paper.
During the session, the second question for the Transport Ministry was skipped because the Kepala Batas MP assigned to table it was absent, causing the sitting to move on to the subsequent question. However, neither the minister nor deputy minister responsible for the subsequent question was present, leading to its skipping when their names were called.
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