A Solomon Islands academic has described the Parliamentary Entitlements Commission (PEC) reasons for the MPs tax-free and salary increase as ‘clumsy’.
University of Hawaii Associate Professor Dr. Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka says the PEC chairman, Johnson Siapu, told Radio Australia last week that MPs need to have a salary that is comparable to the private sector in order to attract the best people to parliament.
But Dr. Tara describes this argument as clumsy given that MPs are elected and do not compete in the open market for jobs.
