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    "id": 1097688,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "The House must benefit from your inquiries and investigations as long as they are well founded. The Committees must of course give us their schedule of activities. The other point is the one on the various Statements that have been requested by Members. When those functionaries appear before you, you must take advantage and place before them those Questions and Request for Statements which have been filed with them so that they can also respond at that time and invite the Members who had either asked the Questions or requested for Statements because it cannot just be one. I want to discourage Committees from kowtowing to other forces outside the House. You can only kowtow to the dictates of the House because you are a Committee of the House. People should not write to you and express desire to appear before you. What are they coming to do? You may never know what they want. You may need to interrogate their intention to appear before you invite them. Is it to entertain you with stories or what is it? If you are genuine and want to inquire into a matter, please go ahead and do it within your mandate but you must also allow the House to benefit from that investigation or inquiry through a report that must be tabled before the House. I would advise that you raise the issue of the Reports when the House resumes because what we say here is on record. The chairpersons of those committees should be informed that the House will expect reports on their expeditions in those inquiries. There is no need for us to debate that."
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