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    "content": "When King Charles appeared before Speaker, William Lenthall in 1642, looking to arrest five Members, the Speaker knelt before the king and said that, “I have neither the eyes nor the ears. I cannot distinguish those Members for you. I do not see them.” That is when the Speaker being the subject to the rules that you have made was established. We will observe the law as it is now. However, when you change it, we will apply it accordingly. You will now agree with me that there are no proceedings on this particular matter. The debate will be brought in the normal way and you all know how, I do not need to remind you how. Since that matter was raised by the Chairperson of the Committee on Devolved Government, I am of the idea that you are the right person because you have the ideas, office and intention. Just do it. There is nothing stopping you. We should not only bring a Motion, but go ahead and change the law so that every report of the Committee, including when the Senate has been petitioned, is considered in the plenary. Normally, what happens is that apart from the interventions you make that do not exceed 30 minutes, when the report is tabled it is just for the purposes of noting and then that is the end of the story. If we truly want to make the House to be the final authority, we can do it. In our own wisdom as a House, we decided that it was better for the Committees to look into the matter because the assumption was that they would do a better job. However, if it appears now that is a route that we may not entertain, we have an immediate solution of considering the matter in plenary. However, that sounds like the French guillotine. I think that it is important that we combine---"
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