Inter-Research And Studies (IRAS)

The parliamentary caucus on reform and governance currently chaired by Port Dickson MP and PKR president Anwar Ibrahim was set up to lead the efforts to reform the parliamentary system and to address major issues on governance, looking into its weaknesses and generates initiatives to reform the administration. The parliamentary caucus is also reported to be planning to revive the Parliamentary Services Act which was abolished in 19992 by the then BN government who then transferred the parliamentary administration under the direct purview of the Prime Minister’s Department with a minister without portfolio appointed to handle all affairs related to the parliamentary staffing, budgeting and administration. To revive the Parliamentary Services Act, the caucus tasked to handle the effort must ensure that the future Act must be improvised and most not be part of the executive government’s instrument. The Act must ensure total independence of the parliamentary service, free from any inter...

Jawatankuasa pilihan parlimen atau dalam bahasa Inggeris, parliamentary select committee dan terkenal dengan singkatan umumnya, PSC adalah suatu bentuk jawatankuasa yang merangkumi ahli-ahli parlimen yang dilantik bagi mengurus atau menyiasat suatu isu ataupun perkara-perkara yang berkepentingan umum. Pembentukan dan fungsi PSC adalah berasal daripada rangkaian sistem berparlimen era British yang menggunapakai model Westminster. Negara-negara seperti Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia dan India turut menggunakan sistem tersebut. Di Britain, contohnya, telah melaksana dan menggunapakai PSC di dalam parlimen negara tersebut sejak daripada tahun 1980 lagi di mana beberapa PSC dibentuk bagi memantau, menyemak-imbang kementerian-kementerian dan jabatan-jabatan kerajaan di negara tersebut bagi memastikan ketelusan, kecekapan dan akauntabiliti di dalam pentadbiran negara tersebut. Para PSC menentukan tajuk, halatuju siasatan, persoalan, peranan mereka sendiri dan mempunyai kuasa untuk men...