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    "content": "Order, hon. Members! Indeed, Mr. George Nyamweya has previously stood on a point of order I think on two occasions in the past raising and expressing more or less the same sentiments, but the Chair has on both occasions given directions with respect to the operations of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. Hon. Members, you are aware that Committees of this House are constituted by the House at the commencement of the relevant Sessions. The House Business Committee brings to this House a Motion which is then endorsed by the House to constitute different Committees. The Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs was constituted in that manner. If the House wishes to disband the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, then the same process will have to be followed. I did give directions to the effect that the Speaker will not disband or reconstitute a Committee. I want this re-emphasized and made absolutely clear. There is a process, precedence, practice, tradition and custom by which this House has constituted Committees and the Speaker will not do so. Hon. Members, with respect to committal of a Bill to a Committee, I did address this matter as recently as last week. Standing Order No.111(1) provides very clearly and the hon. Member has referred to it, that a Bill after it is read the First Time stands committed to the Committee. That is what has happened in this case. The Bill, even as we speak in the House this afternoon, stands committed to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. As to whether or not that Committee is functioning, I am afraid, I am a stranger to that position. Until I am informed by the Committee through normal, usual and regular channels that the Committee is dysfunctional, I will not accept that to be the position."
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