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    "content": "Let me just make what I can. I do not know to which those questions you have talked about were directed. It is good to do just like what Hon. Owen Baya did earlier. I think committee chairs are encouraged to make sure that Members’ questions are responded to in good time. Of course, we do know that there have been those challenges in the past about the social distancing and the like. That can no longer be used as an excuse now. Maybe, Hon. Koros, what you could do is to raise individual questions, but for this one, it will be responded to before the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. These directions are translated through the various heads of committees and the clerks who clerk those committees. I think in appropriate times, perhaps, if you get time, you could check either in the Table Office or with the Director of Committees so that those clerks can also be reminded. I do know now those other four questions were to which committee. This should be a wakeup call to chairs of committees. We should develop a mechanism of naming and shaming lazy committees or committee chairs. This is because it is not fair that you do not respond to questions that your colleagues have raised or to appear to treat them casually. There is no Member who will come to ask a question here for the sake of it. The question is raised on behalf of the constituents. Maybe, Hon. Koros, if you know to whom you had directed those ones you can say. Why do you not say?"
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