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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "With regard to proposals and recommendations, as you know, they are recommendations. What happens after recommendations are adopted? This House has a Committee on Implementation. It is the one to follow up to ensure that recommendations adopted by this House are being implemented by the various agencies of the Executive. They deal with what is called “implementation status” of various recommendations of this House. That is a good mechanism by which the Committee on Implementation should be able to engage with the Executive. The Executive is at liberty to look at the recommendations and implement them in full or in half or decline to implement them; in which case they must give a report to the House, explaining why they have not implemented any of the recommendations or why they are implementing them in the manner they are doing, if not in full. Therefore, we should not worry very much about what commendations have been made, including the recommendation to amend the Constitution. It is only a suggestion. Members of the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, a recommendation like that one cannot be said to be only to the Executive because we are also enjoined to originate Bills, including Bills to amend the Constitution. So, I do not think there is anything that we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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