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    "id": 478102,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, this now brings me to the practice in our own Parliament and the provisions of our Standing Orders. It is common knowledge that our practice allows Members with dissenting views to have those views recorded in the report of the committee. As a matter of fact, before the coming into force of the current Standing Orders, the practice has been to allow a mention of the differing views and name of the Member or Members dissenting. This was the case during the case of the Departmental Committee on Health on the matter of irregularities on the rolling out of the Civil Servants Outpatient Medical Scheme by the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). In that Report, the then Member for Kasipul Kabondo recorded dissenting views. Similarly, the then Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology recorded dissenting views in his Committee’s first Report on the nomination of the persons to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). In this last example, the Chairperson went ahead to move the Report of the Committee as this was his duty, notwithstanding that he had differing views on most of the recommendations made by the Committee. This practice has now been codified in our current Standing Orders under Standing Order No.199(5) and (6), which reads:- “199(5) A report having been adopted by a majority of Members, a minority of dissenting report may be appended to the report by any member of members of the committee. 6. A report of a select committee, including any minority report, together with the minutes of the proceedings of the Committee and with note or record of any evidence by the committee as the committee may deem fit, shall be laid on the table of the house by the chairperson of the select committee, the vice-chairperson, or by a member authorized by the committee on its behalf, within 14 days of the conclusion of its proceedings.”"
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