Paulwell: Any review of Dennis Gordon issue by Ethics Committee must go back to the House

Opposition Business Leader Phillip Paulwell says a memorandum from the Clerk to the Houses of Parliament has confirmed that the Ethics Committee has no authority to revisit the approved exemption motion concerning St Andrew East Central Member of Parliament Dennis Gordon without a new directive from the House of Representatives. According to Paulwell, the memorandum indicated that, once a committee’s report has been adopted by the House, the body becomes “functus officio,” having completed its mandate, and cannot independently reopen or reconsider the matter.

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