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    "id": 464692,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "While I do not wish to repeat what the Leader of the Majority Party has said, one of the benefits that we intended to gain by going purely presidential was to allow this House to concentrate on its core mandate, key of which is law making. This matter has been coming up, and I thank the Leader of Majority Party for raising it again. We have reached a point where we now need the intervention of the Speaker because the main purpose of what the Leader of Majority Party has done is to enable hon. Members to prepare, so that when we come here, we debate the matters that are going to come to this House. We raised this matter last week, and I want to say it again: The Committees must do their work. If the Speaker must wield the big stick, the time is now because we are getting very frustrated. The other week, we were debating the Police Service Commission (Amendment) Bill. However, it was not on the Order Paper last week. It is not on the Order Paper this week. It was slotted for this week but, again, it is not on the Order Paper. We are getting very frustrated. With the limited research facilities that we have, as a House, this is a major frustration. I am, therefore, appealing to you that the Office of the Speaker must now step in, so that the Committees, and particularly the Chairpersons of Committees, can do their work, so that we can also be enabled to our work properly."
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