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    "id": 885673,
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    "content": "(a) Investigate, inquire into, and report on all matters relating to the mandate, management, activities, administration, operations and estimates of the assigned ministries and departments. (b) Study the programme and policy objectives of ministries and departments and the effectiveness of the implementation. (c) Investigate and inquire into all matters relating to the assigned ministries and departments as they may deem necessary, and as may be referred to them by the House. On the other hand, Standing Order 206(2) provides that “the Public Investments Committee shall be responsible for the examination of the working of the public investments on the basis of their audited reports and accounts.” Hon. Members, additional functions of the Public Investments Committee as highlighted under Standing Order 206(6), include: (a) to examine the reports and accounts of the public investments; (b) to examine the reports, if any, of the Auditor-General on the public investments; and (c) to examine, in the context of the autonomy and efficiency of the public investments, whether the affairs of the public investments, are being managed in accordance with sound financial or business principles and prudent commercial practices. Under Standing Order 206(7), the Public Investments Committee is prohibited from examining any of the following: (a) matters of major Government policy as distinct from business or commercial functions of the public investments. (b) matters of day-to-day administration; and, (c) matters for the consideration of which machinery is established by any special statute under which a particular public investment is established."
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