{"id":381353,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/381353/?format=json","text_counter":184,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Ethuro","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":{"id":158,"legal_name":"Ekwee David Ethuro","slug":"ekwee-ethuro"},"content":" Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, you are raising very important issues, but as the Chairman of the Committee on Devolution has observed, you do not rise on a point of order to raise such an issue. You should have sought a proper statement from the chairman of the committee and then you would be given an appropriate response. More fundamentally for me, you are now acquiring a bad habit of ambushing the Chair. You know we do not do that in this business. This is serious business; we operate on full disclosures, at least, at the level of the Chair and the responsible Senator. Since this is the first time I am responding to you on this particular one, I think it is now time we gave the punishment because you are not a new parliamentarian; you are a senior one and you know it. So, the only assumption the Chair can draw is that you want to treat the House and the Chair with a lot of contempt. I will not throw you out, you will suffer the consequences of your Statement not being answered for now. But if you formulate it in a good way, we will entertain it. For now, nobody should respond to it. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."}