Parliament sitting starts with Speaker’s ‘lecture’ - The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: Monday's Dewan Rakyat sitting started off with a 10-minute lecture by Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia reminding the MPs not to highlight trivial and technical matters during proceedings.

He said he would not allow MPs to call for point of order unnecessarily unless it was about a substantial issue and was in public interest.

MPs, he said, had wasted too much time during the first sitting last Wednesday when they kept interrupting proceedings on point of order.

Later, Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Shahziman Abu Mansor said the Government would conduct a research to come up with an Energy Efficiency Master Plan.

He said this would ensure there is energy efficiency in the industries, commercial and domestic adding that the Government would also regulate a law to ensure energy efficiency.

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