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Ad Hoc Sugar Select Committee

AD HOC SUGAR SELECT COMMITTEE

 

Resolution passed on 27th April, 2004 for the establishment of an Ad Hoc Select Committee on the Sugar Industry Reform.

 

Terms of Reference:

 

Recognising the importance of the sugar industry to all stakeholders, the national economy, employment, and livelihoods;

 

Bearing in mind the problems and challenges currently prevailing in the industry and requiring urgent attention;

 

Acknowledging the challenge and desirability of ensuring a vibrant self-sustaining, equitable and socially responsible sugar industry; and

 

Realising that our global competitiveness and the welfare of all our stakeholders can be improved by the reform of the sugar industry this House agrees:

 

To establish a 15-Member ad hoc Select Committee on Sugar Industry Reform comprising 8 Government Members, the Leader of the Opposition and 6 Members of the Fiji Labour Party, to consider the Indian Government Technical and Finance Mission report of March 2004 for the reform of the Sugar Industry, and other associated issues, and after wide consultation with all stakeholders, to report back to the House as soon as possible with recommendations, including proposed legislative changes, to implement these recommendations.

 

Members re-appointed on 30 September 2004:

 

1.                   Hon. Laisenia Qarase, Prime Minister, Minister for Fijian Affairs, Culture & Heritage, Minister for Reconciliation & Unity, ALTA and Sugar Industry Reform

2.                   Hon. Senator Qoriniasi Bale, Attorney-General & Minister for Justice

3.                   Hon. Ratu Jone Y Kubuabola, Minister for Finance & National Planning

4.                   Hon. Tomasi Vuetilovoni, Minister for Commerce, Business Development & Investment

5.                   Hon. Ilaitia B Tuisese, Minister for Agriculture, Sugar & Land Resettlement

6.                   Hon. Ratu Naiqama T Lalabalavu, Minister for Lands & Mineral Resources

7.                   Hon. George Shiu Raj, Member for Ra Open

8.                   Hon. Poseci W Bune, Member for Labasa Open

9.                   Hon. Dr. Ganeshwar Chand, Member for Lautoka City Indian Communal

10.               Hon. Pratap Chand, Member for Nasinu Indian Communal

11.               Hon. Udit Narayan, Member for Lautoka Rural Indian Communal

12.               Hon. Krishna Prasad, Member for Nadi Open

13.               Hon. Millis M Beddoes, Member for Western/Central General Communal