Mahsi. I'm opposed to this recommendation. The whole issue of committees...The reason these recommendations are brought up is for the operation and accountability of the standing committees. One of the issues related to accountability of committees is their ability to do work and do it in the criteria that has been laid out. The rules are now being changed.
Under our system there is no process to review the work of a committee. We're recommending, later on, that the committees submit their goals and objectives, their workplans and that reports are submitted, but there is still no mechanism in our process to review the work of a standing committee. They can review themselves within a committee. We have a process or we adopted a process this term for reviewing the work of Cabinet. We had a mid-term review. Yet, there's no process for reviewing the work of ordinary Members, and our work through the standing committees.
So I would have liked to have seen at least a mid-term review of standing committees for that reason. I'm opposed to having the Members appointed for the term of an Assembly.