Dewan Rakyat speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia said concerns that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak misled Parliament on Budget 2017 will be addressed.

Steven Sim (DAP-Bukit Mertajam) had stood up to ask if Pandikar had decided on whether Najib should be referred to the Rights and Special Privileges Committee.

Pandikar responded by saying that Sim's concerns would be addressed by the Finance Ministry at either the policy stage or committee stage winding-up for the budget debate.

“I will make sure that your concerns are addressed,” Pandikar told the Dewan Rakyat.

Last week, the speaker said he would investigate Sim's claim that Najib had misled Parliament.

Sim and Ong Kian Ming (DAP-Serdang) had previously listed several discrepancies in the Budget speech.

One example is that in his speech, Najib said the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) will spend RM1 billion to improve the coverage and quality of broadband nationwide.

However Sim said in the estimated federal expenditure for the Communications and Multimedia Ministry, which governs the MCMC, only RM57.5 million is allocated under “development expenditure” for the broadband project.