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    "id": 1520193,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "For the record and posterity, I think it is very important for Members to ventilate their sentiments and have them recorded in the Hansard, so t hat by the time the Bill is in the Committee of the whole House stage, there is a basis to bring amendments. We cannot skip this and assume that Members want to catapult straight to the amendments. That will be a shortcut. So, every Member has the benefit, like you do, of knowing what was discussed in the initial stages of the Bill, in the Committee of the whole House or during public participation. This Bill is very important and long overdue. There have been discussions in the country on it dating as far back as 1965. It is not a Bill to be taken lightly. This explains why we are giving Members sufficient time to ventilate on it, so that by the time it comes to the Committee of the whole House, we will be comfortable with how it arrived to that stage."
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