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    "content": "Of course, we know that. When a Bill has been referred to a Committee, it has 21 days to consider legislative proposals. The timeline is 21 days. It appears that, maybe the Standing Orders have – I do not know if we should adopt the practice of doing induction at the commencement of every Session to remind ourselves like Muslims who go for worship on Fridays, and Christians who go to worship on Sundays and others on Saturday. Even those Christians who tell you that they got covenanted, confirmed and saved in the year of our Lord 1946, they still go just to be reminded that there is one God they serve and He protects them. Maybe we may need to adopt that. It was assumed that the people who come to Parliament pick things very quickly so that once we do induction at the beginning of the parliamentary term, they pick up and take off like the Member for Funyula. He took off immediately. I will be delving into those areas to see where it is that perhaps we may need to relax some of the requirements. The route to go, in all fairness, just like Hon. Kaluma has suggested, may be to relax some of the requirements in the Standing Orders which have not been understood by those who examine proposals. A Committee is at liberty to bring a report to the House and ask it to reject it. The House will see whether to agree with it or not to agree with it but, when they just sit there, we do not know what is happening. Like I was telling Hon. ole Sankok, I receive very many requests from Members seeking to introduce legislative proposals on this or another matter. All the requests are channeled out to the Legal Department to assist the Members. So, I think it is a matter that we have to examine before the end of this Session. There are too many proposals by Members which have not seen the light of day; yet you know virtually 99.99 per cent of the Bills that come from the other House are Private Members’ Bills. As we prioritise those Bills, we must remember we have proposals from our own Members here. I mean, there must be a balance. When we consider one Bill from the Senate, we should consider five from Members of this House. That should be the ratio; not one to three or one to two. No, it is 67 versus 349. That should be the ratio. If we did that, I am sure we would have passed very many Bills here, many of them from Private Members’ proposals. I will deal with the matter, Hon. Oluoch, next week. Next Order."
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