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    "content": "Well, I hope everybody notes that and also appreciates it. Traditionally, Monday and Friday afternoons have been used as sitting days for Committees but in the Eleventh Parliament, it appears that every hon. Member wants to disappear on Thursday evening and return here on Tuesday morning or Monday night. This is just to encourage you, as hon. Members, that you try to utilize those hours; if you did--- I am saying this because I have the records, very few Committees are utilizing Monday afternoons and very few, if any, are utilizing Friday mornings. Those are Committee sitting days. If you did, I am sure that would also have had an impact on your workload. So, alongside others that you may be suggesting, hon. Ochieng, during those hours, if Committees were to sit, they would transact a lot of other business, because they would not have the problem of having Chamber sittings. I am aware right now several Committees have applied for leave to sit at this hour. Every Committee is saying they are considering the Budget Policy Statement (BPS). I am sure the record will show that none sat on Monday afternoon or Friday morning. So this thing of you wanting to sit when the Plenary is on--- In as much as we will encourage and facilitate you, when we can--- Spend also those other days and hours; we could minimize the pressures on the Committees."
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