Parliament to Follow Tight programme

Parliament will have morning and afternoon sessions from Monday to Friday this week to consider and approve the budget estimates for the various ministries.

Twenty-seven financial reports including the appropriation bill will be moved while the Civil Service (Amendment) Bill will receive the third reading. Papa Owusu-Ankomah, the Deputy Majority Leader, presenting the Business Statement for the week urged all chairpersons of committees to liaise with their sector ministers and officials to consider their estimates expeditiously and submmit their reports to the House.

Judging from the heavy schedule, the Speaker, Mr Peter Ala Adjetey said the committees should look for other places to hold their meetings since the accommodation facilities in Parliament are inadequate.

He said the government should make funds available to the committees to undertake the important national assignment with despatch. Members expressed their co-operation and readiness to sit into the night to conclude the business for the week.