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    "content": "I am particularly concerned that our doctors expect that all those obligations we undertook are realized so that we can avoid the many strikes that we have been having and which have virtually put our health care in jeopardy. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, yes, we want to be governed according to the rules laid down. However, in the process of implementing this dictum, the Government by Constitution or the Government by rules, you get to learn better how best to implement rules. This is because development of rules and perfections of implementing rules can only be realized in action. When we act and we find that it may be problematic to implement certain rules, we also learn how to amend those rules. So, I think the experiences that we are going through today do not mean that we become slaves permanently to rules, but we examine these rules and see how amenable they are to the day to day action of Government and day to day running of Government affairs. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was rather worried when my dear friend hon. Keynan proposed that we slash the Vote on Account by half and rather than give Government 50 per cent we give it 25 per cent of the Budget. The English may say that if we do that we are becoming penny wise and pound foolish. This is because if you give Government that kind of percentage it may not be in actual fact effective in meeting certain day to day running of Government activities that are in our interest. The proposal by hon. Keynan was, perhaps, a wake-up call for us to live more by the rules. I would like to appeal to my colleagues that we treat hon. Keynan’s proposal as a quip rather than a serious issue. I thank you and I beg to support."
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