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"content": "Hon. Speaker, again with utmost respect to the Leader of Majority Party, I wish he spends more time to listen with his ears than with his heart. This is because from what he has said, he listens more with his heart than with his ears. Hon. Speaker, I did not say I have a problem with this Bill. What I said is the manner of the arrangement. When you go through this Bill, you actually find some typographical errors. I want to remind my friend, the Leader of Majority Party that, I might not be the most diligent reader of Bills in this House, but I take time to read Bills from page to page. I have read this Bill, I have crossed the “Ts” and I have dotted the “Is” in this Bill. All I am saying is that the way this Bill is arranged--- In fact, anybody who has looked at it does not see any reason whatsoever why we could not have had it redrafted and brought as an entirely new Bill in this House. This is because it is proposing to amend almost every section of the existing Bill. Why should it be so difficult to just make arrangements? For example, page 2863 talks of Section 5 of the Principal Act. I wish the Leader of Majority Party could be listening to me. Why would it be so difficult that once you make reference to that section, then you list that particular section you propose to amend below it, instead of having to flip through to the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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