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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to me, forming an ad hoc committee and actually back-dating its effect by two months is corruption. This is because the Chairperson and the Vice Chairperson will have to be remunerated by Parliament for those two months that they never worked. That is the truth; immediately you are chosen as a chairperson of a committee, you start earning a salary. Since this is being back-dated, they will earn that salary in retrospect. So, what is the mischief here? What is this so-called ‘wisdom’ of choosing an ad hoc committee which will have fewer powers than the substantive committee? It does not even have the legal capacity of summoning. Why make a weak committee to do the work that a stronger committee has been unable to do? Maybe the message which is being passed here is that the Office of the Speaker has failed in its legal department. So, it is just a cry in the wilderness that, please, could you employ other legal officers? I believe Members of this Committee, if they so wished, could serve this House"
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