As many as 47 government as well as 15 private bills sailed through the National Assembly from January to December 2022, Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said on Saturday.
The speaker said the NA Secretariat performed extraordinarily in the field of legislation in the year 2022 till date as 38 bills had become acts of parliament.
In the year 2022, 25 resolutions were passed in the house on various issues. Apart from this, the NA Secretariat received 3,751 questions from the members of which 1,004 were answered.
In 2022, a total of 183 calling attention notices were received of which 71 were tabled in the house and 43 were discussed.
A total of 82 privilege motions were received of which 45 were sent to the relevant committees.
Furthermore, 124 motions were received under Rule 259 of 2007 Rules and Procedures in the house and 32 were tabled.
He revealed that prominent legislation done by the NA included the Election Bill, Rahmatul-lil-Alameen Authority Bill, National Highway Safety Bill, Pakistan Medical and Dental Council Bill, Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, Export and Import of Pakistan Bill, National Accountability (Second Amendment) Bill, Pakistan Tobacco Bill, Anti-Dumping Duties Bill, Capital Development Authority Bill, Martyrdom Bill, Petroleum Bill, Foreign Investment Bill and Local Government Elections Bill.
Apart from this, the Public Accounts Committee, standing committees and parliamentary committees remained extraordinarily active for supporting the house to perform its legislative role. These committees also remained active in enhancing parliamentary oversight and ensuring accountability. The committee also ensured taking up the issues of public importance as its chief priority.
He maintained the year 2022 would be remembered in the history of parliament as the NA doors were opened for three days to the marginalised segments of society like women, children, minorities and transgender to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the house.
The first-ever parliamentary caucus on children was also formed due to special concern of the NA speaker.
The parliamentary diplomacy has been the chief hallmark to highlight the challenges of climate change as the house hosted Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) seminar to fight the case of climate justice for the country which culminated as the world adopted “loss and damage fund” in COP-27.
It was also the first time that the NA social media was made proactive to fill the space between people and their representatives.
The NA speaker said that the people belonging to the most downtrodden sections of society were invited to the Diamond Jubilee celebrations and sat on seats reserved for the members of parliament.
These Diamond Jubilee celebrations were well praised by the public and it was a child’s speech in parliament which was viewed by six million people on Twitter and for the first time parliament’s Twitter account remained top trending.
A two-day seminar of the member countries of the IPU Asia Pacific Region on the achievement of SDGs was also held on September 13 and 14, 2022 at the Parliament House, Islamabad.
In the seminar, the delegates of member countries were made aware of the worst flood disaster in Pakistan.
IPU Asia-Pacific region countries were asked to present an emergency resolution at the IPU General Assembly in Rwanda.
With the efforts of the NA speaker, a resolution was presented in the IPU General Assembly meeting held in Rwanda to establish a fund for countries affected by climate change.
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