'Isn't the minister busy letting his subordinates explain to the National Assembly?'

To ensure the quality of law making, many opinions require the Minister to directly explain and debate before the National Assembly, not delegate authority to subordinates.

On the afternoon of September 15, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave its opinion on preparations for the 2nd Session of the 14th National Assembly. The law-making process and discussion methods to improve the quality of draft laws were the contents that received many opinions.

Considering the fact that the Law is unstable and the tendency to "like to amend the Law", amending it as soon as it is passed, this trend exists in many ministries and branches, Chairwoman of the Judicial Committee Le Thi Nga said: "The quality of Law making has been problematic from the beginning. I have observed that there are ministries with one law per Department, but every time it is presented to the National Assembly Standing Committee, only the Deputy Minister presents it, even the Department Head explains the Law, but the Minister is nowhere to be seen. Many times, it is not necessarily because the Minister is on a business trip abroad or busy, but he still does not come to explain to the National Assembly Standing Committee."

Chairwoman of the Judiciary Committee Le Thi Nga

According to Ms. Le Thi Nga, Ministers and heads of sectors must be responsible for explaining and debating from the beginning, so that each term of a Ministry will certainly not have dozens of Laws. In reality, there are laws designed by a few experts but still pass all the processes, while if we just delegate the responsibility to subordinates to explain, the Law cannot have quality.

Noting that “previously, the Minister had to explain until it was passed”, Ms. Le Thi Nga proposed that after each initial presentation of a draft law, the head of the Ministry or sector must explain, receive opinions and debate with National Assembly deputies before proceeding to group discussion on that draft law.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan also emphasized that the Minister must debate draft laws in the National Assembly and not delegate them to subordinates.

The principle is that all content presented to the National Assembly must be carefully prepared and ensure compliance with the Law, on schedule, quality, and clearly defining the responsibilities of the preparation agencies. Only when all requirements are met can it be presented to the National Assembly and the National Assembly must strictly maintain discipline and order.

Regarding law-making, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Uong Chu Luu also expressed his opinion that we should learn from experience and boldly report to the National Assembly any laws that have not been prepared in time and have problems after the 3rd session and the October session of the National Assembly Standing Committee. In fact, up to this point, there are laws that "still have nothing".

Mr. Uong Chu Luu agreed that when discussing, it is necessary to give adequate time for the Minister and the drafting agency to explain, receive, and debate with National Assembly deputies to improve the quality of the law, attach responsibility to the Minister throughout the process of preparing the Law, and create conditions for the implementation of the Law in accordance with reality after the National Assembly passes it.

From another perspective, Chairman of the Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children Phan Thanh Binh wondered: “We have about 15/26 days to make laws during the National Assembly session. Life is extremely complicated, so where do we stand in the supervision work when it takes so much time to make laws like this? Making laws is important, but we must leave time for the National Assembly to supervise and participate in deciding important issues”./.

According to VOV