Tonio Fenech to chair Public Accounts Committee

Tonio Fenech will be chairing the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, the Nationalist Party said in a statement this afternoon.

The former finance minister will be replacing former Labour MP Charles Mangion who chaired the committee, which scrutinises the government's expenditure and accounts of state authorities, in the previous legislature.

The Nationalist Party also said that newly-elected MPs Kristy Debono and Claudio Grech will be sitting on the committee. The government will be appointing the other four members of the committee.

The Opposition's representative on the social assistance board will be its deputy whip Frederick Azzopardi.