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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Procedural Motion. I do not wish to repeat most of what has been said by my colleagues, but what I would like to request is that, a lot of times, as you are aware, research capacity that we have in Parliament is not that much and most times hon. Members do research on their own. We have requested before that when Bills are listed on the Order Paper, or when the Leader of the Majority Party gives programmes for the week, we try as much as possible to have the input from the relevant committee so that when we embark on doing our personal research to debate on the Bills, it does not become wasted effort. This has been frustrating because sometimes you come hoping to contribute to a particular Bill and then you find that, either because of lack of preparedness of the committee or because the input required has not come in, you are not able to proceed as had been listed. Along that line, we had requested your office to intervene to ensure that more hon. Members are enabled to have personnel that can help them in conducting research on a particular Bill, and particularly Bills that are technical in nature or have a lot of impact on our work as Members of Parliament."
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