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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Oloo-Aringo",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Oloo Aringo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give Notice of the following Motion:- THAT, this House resolves to establish a Select Committee to be designated the \"Committee of Selection\" which shall consist of a chairperson and a vice- chairperson and 13 other Members who shall be appointed by the House at the recommencement of every Parliament. The Members of the Committee of selection shall serve in the Committee during the life of Parliament. The Committee of Selection shall consider the list as submitted by political parties and shall discuss and agree on the sharing out of plots in select departmental, house-keeping and ad-hoc committees and prepare the list of the Members to compose the Committee for the appointment by the House. In placement of Members for various Committees, the Committee of selection will ensure that the process is all-inclusive and equitably distributed among political parties and that every Member shall be designated to serve in at least one Committee and that the professional, academic and special skills possessed by Members shall be considered in the compilation of the list of the membership of the Committee. The Committee of Selection shall present for appointment by the House, a June 6, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1111 list of designations of all Committees in the first 10 sitting days after its appointment. The hon. Members who are aggrieved regarding their placement shall appeal to the Board of Appeal which shall comprise the Leader of Government Business, Leader of the Official Opposition, the Government Chief Whip, the Chief Whip of the Opposition and one Woman Member appointed by the House. An hon. Member absenting himself or herself from three or more consecutive sittings of the Committee without the permission of the chairperson may be discharged and shall be replaced by the nominating party. A majority of the hon. Members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum."
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