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    "id": 262023,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. G. Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am just wondering whether we are alive to the fact that once Bills are read the first time, they stand committed to the relevant Departmental Committees. If so, what is the purpose of those Committees if not to scrutinize those Bills and have public participation? If we are asked to commit ourselves to debate these Bills now, presuming that that is what we are being asked to do, are we then effectively not saying that we are bypassing those Committees? If we are, then why did we withdraw some Orders from the Order Paper yesterday that were bypassing the Committees? Again, we are effectively bypassing the Committees. I cannot find myself going through those voluminous Bills without the assistance of the relevant Committees or even having sufficient time before I come to debate and, therefore, be part of passing a Bill which I have not exhausted in my understanding of it. If this is what we are being asked to do, then I am afraid I will not go along with the others. Then we will actually be bypassing our own Standing Orders and the Constitution. In that case, I oppose this Motion."
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