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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "content": "special reports and other reports comes in - and to look at the autonomy and efficiency in terms of investments, whether the affairs of such investments are being in a commercially viable manner. It is due to this that I believe that what Hon. Khalwale did in the last Parliament for the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is what we are trying to do. This is why next time when we do the 19th Report, we would have done something in 73 State institutions. This is an attempt to clear the backlog so that those who will be privileged to be in the next Parliament, and are likely to be Members of the PIC, will deal with current reports as submitted by the Auditor- General. Having said that, I would like to say that some of the issues were very complex because the company being mentioned has its headquarters in Mauritius. We are not sure whether this is true or not. The only confirmation that we have is that the General Manager who was seconded to the Refinery was from Essar, India. That was the only connection but I think there was a very important sentiment made by Hon. Gikaria which we need to take into account. In the Report, those who are culpable have been mentioned. The people who participated in this have already been mentioned and there was a Permanent Secretary. There could have been only one Permanent Secretary and it would have been more prudent if the names were given. There was also one Investment Secretary because we did not have two. There was one Chief Executive Officer because we did not have two. The titles have been given but I think what he said is correct. In future, we will not only mention the titles and the names, but we will also prepare a charge sheet so that you know the issues being said against a particular office. I am also happy to see my good sister here. That is the Chairperson of the Implementation Committee. I want to tell her that the reason why the framers of the current Standing Orders – the Implementation Committee is fairly new - decided to have it and I am a Member of that past Parliament, is that once reports are adapted by the House, the Implementation Committee should be there to circulate copies of that report to the relevant agencies and expect a feedback within a time frame. If that happens, this House will not be reduced to a conveyor belt. I am happy to see that she already has a report under item 10. Their work is easy. It is to get the reports, submit them to the relevant agencies and ask for a brief on the same within a timeline. Once that happens, the work of Committees will be very easy. Finally, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is difficult to have 25 Members out of 27 Members appending their signatures. Those were the Members who were around. I want to take this opportunity to once again thank the Members. It requires a lot of devotion and passion because it is one thing to be a Member of a committee and another to participate in the deliberations and report writing of a particular committee. I am proud to say that I have the most active Members of the 11th Parliament."
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