Motion to increase Dewan Meetings and extend duration of Dewan Meeting

DEWAN UNDANGAN NEGERI SARAWAK
Dewan Sitting 5^th – 15^th May, 2014

25^th April, 2014

Setiausaha
Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak
Petra Jaya
93502 Kuching
Sarawak

Tuan,

Re:     Standing Order 23, Notice of Motion

This serves to give notice under Standing Order 23 that the undersigned, ADUN for N.48 Pelawan wish to move the following motion at the above Dewan sitting during the current session:-

Motion to increase the number of meetings and sittings for Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak

WHEREAS:

1)      The Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak only meets twice a year(2 meetings per session), and each meeting has normally only  8 days of sitting.

As a result, there is insufficient time for Honorable Members to debate and deliberate on issues of the People, many oral questions remain unanswered, private members’ motions are summarily rejected without debate and thus many issues of the People remain unresolved.

2)      It has become a practise that many issues brought up in the Dewan meeting will only be addressed and dealt with by the relevant government authorities when the subsequent  meeting is about to convene for fear of the embarassment of having the same issues being brought up a second time in the subsequent meeting. As such, the People are made to wait unnecessarily for extra few months for some of their simple problems to be addressed by the relevant authorities.

3)      Sixteen(16) days of meeting per year is not doing justice to the RM 296.50 million Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak building which is grossly under-utilised.

WHEREFORE IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that :

1)      The number of meetings per session of the Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak be increased from two(2) to three(3);

2)      The number of sittings per meeting be extended to 14 days per meeting exclusive of public holdays or/and weekends.

Yours faithfully,

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David Wong Kee Woan

ADUN Pelawan (N. 48)