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"content": "Hon. Members, I have not approved any other requests for statements, but I can see indications on my screen that there are people making requests. If they are by way of statements, I will shut you down because you should have seen the Speaker in advance for approval of the same. As you can see, requests for statements take the shape of Questions. You are really going to put the chairpersons of committees, who are your own colleagues, in very awkward positions because they are not the Executive. So, as we move on, there will be need to develop a different mechanism by which these requests, which are important, will be prosecuted in the House. I believe that when you put forward a request for a statement and, perhaps, you are putting it to a chairman of a departmental committee on which you sit; you are almost requiring your chairman to assume the role of the Executive and start explaining what the Government has done, as was stated in the last part of the request for that statement. Irrespective of which side of"
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