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    "content": "I beg to move: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 28(4), this House, resolves to alter its Calendar for the Fifth Session (Regular Sessions), as adopted on Wednesday, 10th February, 2021 and amended on Tuesday, 8th June, 2021 by varying the period for the Short Recess with respect to the Second Part of the Session, so that- (a) the Short Recess commences on Friday, 9th July, 2021 and ends on Monday, 2nd August, 2021; and, (b) the House resumes its regular Sittings on Tuesday, 3rd August, 2021 to continue with the Second Part of the Session. Hon. Speaker, the House Business Committee - as you reported earlier in your Communication - is cognizant of the fact that there is a lot of pending business at the Committee level and because of the limited sittings and the limited participation by the Members, it will not be fair to put so much pressure on the committees and only give them two weeks during which to process most of that business. Therefore, the House Business Committee then considered giving the committees an extra one week so that during the three weeks, most of the individual Members' Bills, Government Bills and the Committee Bills can be processed so that when we come back, we will concentrate more on processing those Bills to their final conclusion. This is especially with regards to the fact that some of those Bills will need to also go to the Senate. Moreover, we are all politicians and know that the transfer window season, the season of getting back to the electorate is coming and, hence if you are not able to process most of those here and in the Senate, most of the work we put in generating those Bills could go down to waste. Hence, that is the reason we are re-organizing this calendar to provide committees more time for this session and when we come back, we will then be able to look at how we keep tweaking the Calendar to ensure we maximize on the work of the committees and the House and process as much as possible before we all get very busy with the electorate. Therefore, Hon. Speaker, I really do not want to belabour the point. You did indicate the 54 Bills that are pending before the various committees for which we are expecting reports. That is only individual Members' Bills. I also have very many Bills that are pending before the 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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