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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "We are in the third year of this Parliament. I am sure that you could appear before the Committee when the CS is answering, so that if you are dissatisfied, you can bring a Motion here to discuss the unsatisfactory nature and seek the House to resolve in a particular way. Hon. Martin Owino, when you tell me that the answer or a statement was unsatisfactory, the answers and the statements never came from the Speaker’s Office. I am unlikely to be of any assistance. However, if, for whatever reason a Statement has been read or a Question has been answered and you are not happy with it, you can apply to the Chair of the Committee to adjourn that matter until the CS responds to the specific issues. Even in the old system, if an answer was given here on the Floor of the House and a Member was able to persuade the Chair, and because those copies would also be given to the Speaker and the Member says that an answer was not satisfactory, the particular Minister then would be referred back to come with a more satisfactory answer. Sometimes, the answer is given and, indeed, the entire House feels that it is unsatisfactory. The House can, therefore, resolve. More importantly, under the current Constitution, if you think the kind of answers coming from other quarters drive you think that it is a mark of incompetence; you are again at liberty to propose the Motion to deal with the incompetent state officers. For now, there is nothing new that I can say about what was said. This is because, indeed, this applies to all Members; not just to Hon, Owino. If the answers you are getting are casual, not detailed and do not respond to the issues, you are at liberty to raise what is unsatisfactory about those answers at the time the Question is being answered by the CS or whoever, and request the Chairperson to either refer the matter back to the CS or whoever it is that is responding, for more satisfactory answers. But you must give reasons. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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