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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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    "content": "presented to the House, it has to meet the necessary threshold and for this petition to have reached the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, it must have met the threshold that is required. Hon. Speaker, when a commission or anybody, whether you are in a private capacity or not, is summoned to appear before a parliamentary committee it means that you are given an opportunity to give your side of the story. This Committee felt that it was not necessary for this person to appear before it and, therefore, this was contempt not just to that Committee but also to this House. Hon. Speaker, Sir, the issues that have been presented by the Committee raise very serious issues on Chapter Six of this Constitution on integrity. We expect that officers who are serving in the JSC or any other commission must be able to meet Chapter Six on integrity. When you look at the issues that have been raised, when it comes to issues of finance where they are abrogating themselves the responsibility to be able to determine how much should be paid to so-and-so, it means they have gone beyond their responsibility of oversight. It means they are transacting business which they are not supposed to be transacting. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I want to congratulate the Committee for the report which they have come up with. This report does not dismiss the JSC. What it does is that it recommends for a tribunal to be formed to establish the truth. It gives them a chance to also give their side of their story."
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