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    "content": "Order, hon. Member for Mwala! You cannot be upstanding when the Chair is upstanding. However urgent the matter may be, you must respect this House; we must conduct ourselves with decorum. So, hon. Members, I really think, as I have clearly said, a ruling was made here in the House on this matter; the ruling was made about what Statements are going to be answered by the Leader of Majority Party and what Statements are going to be answered by the committee chairs. All that I am saying is that there was an anomaly because we do not normally indicate when we are approving Statements which Statement is to be answered by the Leader of Majority Party and which one is to be answered by the committee chairs; however, due to the ruling that was given by the Speaker, which stated clearly about national cross-cutting matters--- There were three factors and this one is specific; I am saying let us rectify this anomaly. I thought the two gentlemen were friendly to each other. They were sitting next to each other. There is a way in which they can then decide on their own between now and tomorrow which one of them will respond to the Statement request, so that we do not go on and on with this matter; we can then later get a another clear communication again. If we need a second communication we need to talk to the Speaker, so that it is very clear when we are approving a Statement whether we direct to the chair of a committee, or to the Leader of Majority Party; at this moment that is not the practice. On this matter, let us not go on and on. Clarifications are going to help us, but we want to have a system which is clear and structured on how Statements are going to be answered in the House. As you are aware, a lot of the chairs are also complaining that they have so many Statements that they are unable to bring to the House. That is why we are saying let us prosecute most of the Statements in the committees so that we do not have too many of them coming to the House. So, in the interests of moving forward I want us to leave it to the two Members of the Jubilee coalition, the chair and the Leader of Majority Party and I am sure they will be able to sort out the issue. It is only the hon. Member for Mwala whose Statement will be answered tomorrow. I am not saying it is going to be answered next week. Tomorrow you will get a response to your Statement request. This matter now rests there."
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