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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "Thank you for the opportunity to address the House. It is the mark of ultimate shame that from the Chair, you can pronounce a record that is not correct. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale and Sen. Cherarkey contributed and you have not mentioned them. You are giving us a sanitised version of events. It is not that I failed to substantiate, but the House was unable to keep up with what I was saying. I gave a Universal Resource Locator (URL) to the information I had given. We have been given these iPads and we also have screens in this House. The taxpayer has invested a lot of money; substantiation does not have to be by paper. Once I give a URL, it is up to the individual Senators and the clerks-at-the-Table to access the information that I have referred to through the URL. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is shameful that you can stand there and read a sanitised version of events. Very many Senators contributed to that Motion and unless you give a correct record of what happened, I am not going to be invited into that murky bubble in which you want this House to exist. I will not. I was not disorderly; I did substantiate. I am not responsible for the incapacity of anyone to access the internet. The taxpayer cannot invest a lot of money to give us gadgets in this House yet we are unable to use them. If they do not give us, we complain we do not have them and when we are given, we cannot use them. So, what are we dealing with? Let us shape up, wake up and govern this country."
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