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    "id": 355447,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "I equally expected that the names would be on the Order Paper this afternoon. However, it is good that the House has been informed of what is happening now. It is only the Public Investments Committee and the Public Accounts Committee--- My colleagues on the other side said that they want to take the chairmanship of those committees in order to play the oversight role. Previously, those committees have been chaired by the Opposition. It is good that everybody gets to know that the Opposition chaired those committees not as a favour, but it was in accordance with the Standing Orders of that time. During the Eighth Parliament, the Standing Orders, which now stand repealed, stated very clearly that the Opposition was to chair the Public Investments Committee (PIC) and the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and that the Government was to have a majority of not more than two. That is why the Opposition chaired the committees. During the Ninth and the Tenth Parliament, the Standing Orders, which are now also repealed, stated that the Opposition was to chair the PIC and the PAC and the Government would have a majority of one and that happened. The Standing Orders of the Eleventh Parliament, and this is a House of rules, were changed. On the composition of the PIC and PAC, the current Standing Orders state that the membership is drawn from the parties’ strength and the membership of those"
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