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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "largest Committee of this House. In fact, it will be a Committee of every Member of Parliament and chaired by the Speaker. It will be the second, after the House Business Committee, that the Speaker is going to chair. The Committee will sit on Tuesday mornings. Hon. Speaker, I want to disagree with hon. Mbadi by saying that this House was doing serious oversight of the Executive, through the Departmental Committees. This particular Committee will give hon. Members the opportunity to engage with the Cabinet Secretaries in a Committee session and ask both Ordinary and Private Members Questions, as they used to be called in the previous Parliaments. In the case of Private Members Question, if a Question is very urgent, the Cabinet Secretary will have an opportunity to answer every Tuesday. Then there are the Ordinary Questions. This will give hon. Members an opportunity to ask Cabinet Secretaries direct questions in a Committee of the whole House set-up. So, this is a step ahead for the Eleventh Parliament. I am sure that this will stop those people who want to amend the Constitution to allow the Government to appoint Members of this House or other Houses in the future to be part of the Cabinet. But it is a good step. Hon. Members do not feel well when they raise Questions only for those Questions to be answered by their colleagues. When a Cabinet Minister answers a Question, not only does the Questioner feel good but the constituents he represent feel that the Question is being answered by a Cabinet Secretary. So, the timing is good because it will be on a Tuesday morning. People like me, who are not members of any Departmental Committee, today is a good day for me. I am a Member of the House Business Committee, like the Speaker. So, apart from the House Business Committee, I will now be a member of another Committee. So, my Committee allowances will, at least, go up. I will diligently do two things. First, I will make sure that every Tuesday I am here, so that I can get my allowance. Two, I will diligently confirm to the House that I will be the link between the Executive and the House and make sure that Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) appear before this large Committee every Tuesday when they have the relevant and concrete answers. That is because we do not want Members to do what we used to do in the last Parliament."
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