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    "content": "Christmas and the New Year holidays - we only have five working days, but we will have to figure out on Tuesday when we meet what can be contained within those days. When we come back in the New Year, with the party primaries taking place, we are unlikely to have time in this House for serious consideration of debates. So, we only have five days. We will be working on that on Tuesday to itemize what it is and we will be reporting to this House to say that this is what we consider the most urgent. We will ask the Members to stay extra time. We might have to sit on Thursday morning and Friday next week. I do not want to anticipate what will come out in the debate on Tuesday, but it is just preparing the Members that we need to prepare to expand the five days to perhaps eight days through extra sittings and extra time to clear what would be mandatory. Without anticipating debate, we have a Motion today, for example, to extend time by two hours, so that we can clear what we have today and bank that. Then we come on Tuesday and start on a fresh page. I am sure that the manner in which we have done this in the past, in terms of clearing workloads, because matters have already gone through the Committees and have been discussed in various fora, everything that is not controversial that we need to do before the next elections should come. That includes, for example, the Office of the Attorney-General and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, which we expect to come on the Order Paper on Tuesday. The Division of Revenue and County Allocation Bills are coming next week. The Supplementary Estimates will then tie all that together. All that will be business for next week and I am sure this House will rise to the occasion and finish these matters within next week before we go for the Christmas holidays. If we manage our time properly within the House by reducing any contribution that will not necessarily enrich the debate, so that we can sort out most of that within the Committee, then it will help in speeding up the matter. At the end of it all, we have total faith that this House will finish the work that it has assigned itself. All these Bills are within the House and have been brought to the House because you want them to be passed before you go home."
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