SOME members of the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee of Parliament might find themselves dropped from that body.

The select committee of parliament, is appointed to monitor budgetary expenditure during the implementation stage by:

• Examining budgetary expenditure of government agencies to ensure that public money is expended in accordance with Parliamentary approval;
• Monitoring expenditure as it is incurred and keeping Parliament informed of how the budget is being implemented;
• Enquiring into the administration of the Government to determine hindrances to efficiency; and
• To make recommendations to the parliament for improvement of public administration.

But at today’s sitting an obviously put out Committee Chair Dr Wykeham McNeill said of the 15 members only nine had a consistent attendance record.

“The other six have become strangers. It is my intention to indicate to the Leader of Government Business in the House and the Leader of Opposition Business in the House that they look at the body of people that make up these committees that they need to move around some of these names,” McNeill said yesterday.

For the most part, MPs Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Thwaites, Fitz Jackson, Michael Stern, Dr Morais Guy, St Aubyn Bartlett, Phillip Paulwell, Othneil Lawrence and Franklyn Witter have been the ones to show.

Other Committee members are Robert Montague, Tarn Peralto, Desmond Mair, Natalie Neita Headley, Ian Hayles, DK Duncan and Ernest Smith.