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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, from the arguments on the Floor, it becomes clear that we need to set this straight right from the beginning. In Article 10 of the Constitution, there are principles and values which we must start practising in this House. Applicable to this list is transparency, regional balance and the gender principle. We have 69 ladies in the National Assembly, exactly 20 per cent of the Members. So, the minimum that we should allocate in any committee without having to wait for all the 27 or so committees and hoping somebody will calculate on some basis to see whether we have complied with these principles, basically, it should be committee by committee basis and the minimum should be 20 per cent ladies. As to the regional balance, we have presented the Members just by their names and this cannot show us whether we are not, by practice, allowing some regions to dominate committees in this House. It is important we start practising the principle of regional balance as well and show which county a Woman Representative represents, so that those of us who are mathematically oriented can quickly assess the regional diversity to see whether the Whips have done a good job in compiling the lists."
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