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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I also stand to support this Report. However, even as I support this Report, may I point out that these matters have been canvassed. I wish more minimal Committee Members would listen to the recommendations of this Report. The issues that have been raised particularly with regard to leaderships of Committees are very important. Sometimes, I get surprised at how people find it very difficult to understand obvious things. It should be obvious that to be a Chairman of a Committee, you first have to be a Member of Parliament. However, a lot of times it appears like the Chairmen of Committees, for some reasons, do not regard Committee Members as equal to them. As we go about debating this Report, I want to state that the issues that have come out, particularly with regard to the image of the House, sadden me. It affects me when we try to bog down an important Report like this one into issues which are not related. We must look at this Report as an opportunity for us to re-look at the image of Parliament. Some of the issues which have come out of the matters that the Committee on Powers and Privileges was looking at are not good for the image of Parliament. In fact, there have been cases when this matter was going on that some of us were even afraid out there to describe ourselves as Members of Parliament. This is because it imposed collective guilt on all of us. We should take this Report as an opportunity for deep self-reflection as 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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