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"content": "Order! Hon. Members, indeed, the Chair recognizes the fact that there has been quite a bit of a joke here on these Questions. This is because you cannot have a Question appearing on the Order Paper four times. You cannot have a Question that was listed a good number of months; five or six months back. In any case, the Assistant Minister did make a very firm undertaking that he was going to answer this Question comprehensively and exhaustively today. A situation in which a Minister is not in a position to answer, unless it is an unavoidable circumstance like somebody going to hospital on a serious issue which everybody would appreciate, the Minister is supposed to seek leave from the Speaker or Chair for that matter. This is because when you make an undertaking, it is a firm undertaking and the spirit of the Standing Orders is in line with that. Standing Order No.46 says: “It shall be disorderly conduct for a Member to fail to ask or for a Minister to fail to ask a Question listed on the Order Paper without the leave of the Speaker.”"
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