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    "id": 433730,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, we are on Order No.7 on Statements and today being Wednesday, it is a day for responses. There are five responses from various Chairpersons of Committees. The House Business Committee in its meeting of last evening, 29th April, 2013, decided that these responses or particular business will only take one hour. This is in order to give room for the very many Private Members’ Bills that are on the Order Paper today and because this is a House that does legislative work, we want to give effect and meaning to those initiatives by Members who have proposed several Bills. In fact, if you look at today’s Order Paper, it has not less than 12 Private Members’ Bills, indeed a commendable move by Members. Therefore, this Order will only last for one hour from now, quarter past nine. At quarter past ten we will go to the Motions that follow, on Order No.8 and the others that follow. Of course, Members will be at liberty when we get there, if you decide to do so, and make full use of your own Standing Order No.97 to determine how many of those Bills you want to discuss today. The House has the power to allocate specific timelines or periods within which debate on one particular Bill may be concluded, but that is for you as the House to determine when we get to that. The first response is by the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Lands, regarding resettlement of squatters, requested by the Member for Saboti, hon. David Wafula. That Communication from the Speaker cannot elicit a point of order."
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