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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Farah",
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        "legal_name": "Farah Maalim Mohamed",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Unfortunately, the rules of debate of the House do not allow somebody who has been on the Chair to debate a matter including his rulings outside the House. I am of the perfect opinion that if I had that provision, this debate would have been concluded way earlier. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the benefit of the House, I got a call from a Member of Parliament five minutes before the House resumed here on the material day saying that there had been a ruling in the House during the Ninth Parliament that said that no report can be tabled if that report is not made available to the Speaker through the Clerk's office. You have said it in your own ruling that there was one copy in the folder for the Deputy Speaker but not in the knowledge of the Deputy Speaker. I was not informed in my office. I was also not informed even as earlier as when I sat in there. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I remember that prior to that, there was a report to be tabled by the Departmental Committee on Administration of Justice and Legal Affairs in which notice was brought to my mind that this report had not been brought to the Speaker to peruse through so as to approve and that communication or knowledge came to me from the Clerk's Department. I consulted the Clerk's Department twice as a matter of fact to allow other Members of Parliament to October 9, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2633 table their reports while I waited for confirmation that the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade did conform with the stipulated rules and procedures. On both occasions the Senior Deputy Clerk came to me and said \"no\". Before that, I made personal efforts to bring him from his office so that he was here with me, so that institutional memory that is held by the Clerk's Department is made available to me because of the sensitivity of the issue itself."
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