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"content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the work of this Committee. We reached a dead end and that is why we came to you and your Committee to bail us out. As you know the work of this House from now on will be dependent on committee reports. So, it will never be possible to have half of the House sitting in meaningful Committees and a majority really not being anywhere, or sitting in committees which are of no value. I want to appeal to our whips on both sides that we look, in order to engage Members, at committees in a way so that each Member gets an opportunity to serve on a busy Committee. This is because that will be work of a committee. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I have been talking to a lot of Members. I think an induction would have sufficed particularly in regard to the role of Committees. When many Members here the word âappointmentâ they think they will have an opportunity to"
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