{"id":255419,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/255419/?format=json","text_counter":84,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Order, hon. Members! I think I have a rough idea of the argument for those who propose or those who oppose the introduction of the report to House. I also have a rough idea of the argument of those who propose to lay the Paper on the Table of the House. There is something that happens in this house, which actually never used to happen before; that the Speaker is continuously getting ambushed, particularly in respect of Committee work. Ordinarily, in the ordinary course of events the proceedings of Committees should be availed to the Chair so that the Chair is kept abreast of what transpires in Committees. If there is anything that the Speaker wishes to advise on, then he will be able to do so. A second mistake in this House is that this House has by and large, grown a rhinocerous skin against consultations. The \"skin\" is so thick that not even the sharpest spear can penetrate the wall of this House; it refuses to consult. I have never been consulted by this Committee or anybody on this issue since it began. Yet, everybody is very happy to come to the Floor of the House and ask me to make a statement on it right now. That I will not do. This is a grave matter; I will communicate to this House, if it is humanely possible, tomorrow, and latest on Thursday. Secondly, I wish to direct the Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly to reproduce the verbatim HANSARD of what has transpired this afternoon to help me look at all the arguments. But much more importantly, as we sit here this afternoon our Research Department should start on it immediately, so that I will be able to deal with it as quickly as possible. In the meantime, I suspend the matter until I make that communication. That is it!"}