The Finance Ministry tops the list of government bodies which must improve, according to Daim Zainuddin.
Daim, who heads the Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) tasked with advising the government, said this was based on their findings over the past 100 days.
"Number one is the Ministry of Finance. It must bring in money, revenue for the country and make sure expenditure is not wasted.
"And there must be no corruption," he told a press conference in Kuala Lumpur this evening.
Lim Guan Eng is the current finance minister, and inherited the portfolio from former premier Najib Abdul Razak.
Daim, a former finance minister himself, was responding to Malaysiakini's question on what are the top three government agencies or sectors that the CEP found to be in need of improvement.
"And do not politicise the civil service," he added, without elaborating.
Daim and other members of CEP held the press conference to announce that the council's mandate ended yesterday.
He summarised the council's recommendations to the prime minister into three key categories.
They are the need to improve governance, the need to improve well being of the rakyat, and the need to grow a sustainable economy for the country.
The new Pakatan Harapan government led by Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamed formed CEP to advise it during the period of transition of power.
Established on May 12, two days after Mahathir was sworn in as the country's seventh premier, but before a full cabinet was formed by Harapan, CEP was formed with five key members.
Other members of the "Council of Elders" were former Bank Negara governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz, former Petronas president and CEO Mohd Hassan Marican, economist Jomo Kwame Sundaram and tycoon Robert Kuok. -Mkini
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