THE Dewan Rakyat today approved a motion to set up 10 special parliamentary select committees for the current term.

The motion was tabled by Minister in the Prime MInister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Azalina Othman Said.

The committees are on finance and economics; health; domestic trade, entrepreneurship, cost of living and agriculture; infrastructure, transport and communications; and nation building, education and human resource development.

The others are on women, children and community; environment, science and plantation; security, international relations and international trade; and human rights, elections and institutional reform.

Azalina said they will function as a check-and-balance mechanism for the ministries.

She also said the Dewan Rakyat Select Committee has agreed that the All Party Parliamentary Group Malaysia will continue. – Bernama, March 21, 2023.