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    "content": "do not think there is any Mover of a Motion who would want to come here and only have his Motion supported. In many occasions, we would be happy with criticism, improvement and so forth. I want to take this opportunity to thank the hon. Members most sincerely. I also want to thank the Committee chaired by you. I want to repeat that “it is chaired by you” because I am sure that my good friend and neighbour, hon. Gikaria, might have put me in quite some difficulties, and I might be in trouble with you. That is because in this particular instance, I am only here to deliver on behalf of the Committee, which you chair; I am sure your able deputy would have done the work that I am doing today. Unfortunately, she is bereaved, as you indicated. So, I hope I am not going to be in a lot of trouble with you. I have been made the Chairman while, in the actual sense, you are the Chair. You are the one who actually guided us quite effectively into the night yesterday and even today. Hon. Speaker, I have heard a lot of contributions from the hon. Members. First, I want to ask hon. Members to take advantage of that particular way of amending Standing Orders. Hon. Members should know that they have the power to amend the Standing Orders by seeking support from 50 hon. Members. Many of the issues that they might have noted today can still be effectively tackled by them by way of amending the Standing Orders using the power they have under the Standing Orders. Hon. Speaker, I also want to talk on the issue of increasing ommittees membership. We went through most of the issues that were raised by hon. Members yesterday and today. We found it a bit difficult to increase the committees because of lack of space and manpower. We realized that it would be a bit difficult to expand committees beyond the numbers that we have. The drafters of Standing Orders were cognizant of the difficulties that we have as an august House; therefore, that is one thing that we looked at; we thought it would be better to increase the numbers of hon. Members rather the number of Committees."
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