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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
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    "content": "committee. Should the Motion be carried, the special committee will investigate the matter and report to the Senate on whether it finds the particulars of the allegations against the Deputy President to have been substantiated. In the event that the Motion for the establishment of a special committee does not pass, the Senate will proceed to investigate the matter in Plenary. Consequently, I will appoint a date for the commencement of the hearing of the evidence for the purposes of the investigation. I wish to emphasize that the debate on the Motion for the establishment of a special committee shall be confined to the matter of the Motion, that is, whether or not to establish the special committee. It shall be improper and out of order to debate the substance of the impeachment, its merits, propriety, prudence or the constitutionality or legality of the processes that have preceded the submission of the matter to the Senate. In the meantime and during the pendency of this impeachment process in the Senate, I wish to caution Honourable Senators to desist from publicly commenting on the merits or demerits of the impeachment Motion. Doing so would amount to anticipation of debate, which is an infringement of Standing Order No. 99 of the Senate Standing Orders. Hon. Senators, to make it clear, it shall constitute gross disorderly conduct within the meaning of Standing Order No.122 for a Senator to make comments, whether written or spoken, in relation to the conduct of the Deputy President or the impeachment process, which is outside the confines of the impeachment proceedings as such comments may prejudge the just outcome of this matter. As I conclude, I urge you, hon. Senators, to stay true to the oath of office and exercise the highest level of responsibility on this particular matter. I thank you. Hon. Senators, a Supplementary Order Paper has been circulated. I believe it has been posted to your gadgets. You may now abandon the Order Paper that we have been using and switch to the new one. Clerk, you may now proceed to call the next Order."
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