8.4 Parliamentary Committees (Selected): Scope, Authority, Role andEffectiveness

The committees' world (the parliament's working machinery — the ConLaw course's depth): theselected accountability committees: the Public Accounts Committee (the audit's guardian — the AG's reports' examination; the expenditures' scrutiny); the State-Affairs-and-Good-Governance Committee (the administration's-and-good-governance' oversight); the Law-Justice-and-Human- Rights (the legislation's-and-rights' review); The scope-and-authority: the summons (the officials' calling); the documents' demands; the directives-and-recommendations (the report's force); The role: the ex-post-and-ongoing checking (the administration's parliamentary questioning beyond the floor); The effectiveness's audit: the expertise-and-time's constraints; the partisanship's risks; the follow-up's weakness — the honest assessment.