Abela dismisses calls to change structure of the Standards Committee

Opposition calls for a change in the composition of the parliamentary standards committee were dismissed by the prime minister on Thursday. Opposition leader Bernard Grech has proposed that the committee should be composed of an MP each from the government and the opposition and three other members chosen with the support of a two-thirds majority of the House, with one of them in the chair. The committee is currently chaired by the Speaker and has two members each from the government and the opposition.