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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "Before we go to the next Order, I wish again to revisit the issue of Bills being presented to the House. I raised the same issue about three weeks ago. I said there is actually a scarcity of Bills being presented to this august House. Hon. Members, you will notice that right now, there is only one Bill listed on the Order Paper. The rest are Motions. But the House will be interested to know that 18 Bills have already been published and are awaiting discussion in this House. Eight of them have only been read for the First Time. Three of them are on the Second Reading Stage. Five of them, are in Committee Stage. Unless we deal with these matters expeditiously, we may not finish them all during this Session. I, therefore, encourage the Ministers, first of all, to ensure that these Bills are listed on the Order Paper. They should also be prepared to present them before the House. Secondly, most Bills that are in the Committee Stage - and this is becoming problematic - are held back because the requisite amendments have not been refined. That is not a happy state of affairs. I think we need to deal with these things expeditiously. Otherwise, there is no point of publishing Bills that we have no intention of discussing! So, I hope every hon. Member has taken note of that. Particularly the Bills in Committee Stage should be brought before the House in the next two weeks, so that we deal with them."
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