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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "The Minister for Energy is not in. Indeed, he sent a letter to the Clerk’s Office which was received at 8.10 a.m. today. The letter says that this Question be deferred to another date because the Minister and the two Assistant Ministers will not be available. We did give a Communication yesterday from the Chair in which we said that Ministers must take their business seriously. Parliamentary business is not business that can be taken very casually. Writing a letter to the Clerk’s Office or the Speaker’s Office to say that a Minister will not be available and a letter being received on the same morning that the Question is listed on the Order Paper in itself is a serious inefficiency on the part of the Ministry. The Chair directs that the Minister for Energy will not transact any business in this House until he is able to explain himself very adequately. That is why the system is such that almost every Minister has got two Assistant Ministers. The business of the House is very serious and it must be taken with the seriousness it deserves."
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