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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to move the following Procedural Motion:- THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 256(1), this House resolves to exempt the business appearing in today’s Order Paper from the provisions of Standing Order 40(3), being a Wednesday Morning, a day allocated for Business not sponsored by the Majority or Minority Party or a Member belonging to the Majority or Minority Party or Business sponsored by a Committee. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, according to the parliamentary calendar, the House will go on recess on 5th December, 2013 and as per the Standing Orders, Bills that will not have passed through the Second Reading will be invalid, if we go on recess. That means those Bills have to be republished. They have to go through all the processes and that is very costly both to Parliament and to the originators, both the public and private sectors. We have agreed in the House Business Committee (HBC) that we try to condense and see whether we can finish as much business as possible and even see further whether next week we can amend the Standing Orders through the Procedure and House Rules Committee to see that Bills that have not reached the Second Reading, will still be relevant and will still be used when we resume sometime in February next year. So, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, because of this agenda, the HBC last night agreed that we use the morning sitting to do so. We want to tell our colleagues that we value your Motions but we want to do this because of the provisions in the Standing Orders that will make some Bills redundant, if we go on recess before they reach the Second Reading stage. With that, I ask my colleague in the HBC, hon. Makali Mulu, Member for Kitui Central to second."
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