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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "It is a pity that our Standing Orders do not have sufficient sanctions good enough to make sure that the Government takes up its responsibility seriously. If I was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Government - and which I am not - I would see that my Government is not functioning. We cannot have Questions being asked by hon. Members of the Back Bench and they cannot be answered on Wednesday morning, yet we have the biggest Cabinet we have ever had in the history of this country, with 42 Ministers with every Ministry having the very least one Assistant Minister and one Minister. That is very serious and I am sure now that we are trying to revise our Standing Orders, they will give sufficient punitive sanctions against such Ministers. They will know that such kind of behavior might cost them their jobs in the future. That is the only direction we can take, otherwise, the Chair cannot give a ruling outside the Standing Orders. The Chair is limited. The only ruling I can give right now is to deny the Ministers an opportunity to transact business on the Floor of the House until such a time they will have explained themselves adequately. Unfortunately, we do not have the Leader of Government Business in the House today. The Deputy Leader of the Government Business is also affected in the sense that he runs a Ministry. He has also been barred from transacting business on the Floor of the House. At least, the Chair noticed that one Deputy Leader of Government Business was around a short while ago. However, this is a shame. We need to take the business of this House very seriously."
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