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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "I think this is administrative and what I need to do is to get your programme to the Ministries. Indeed, in any Parliament, PAC is the oldest Committee if we are dealing with matters of oversight. Perhaps, we need to sit and agree on a programme to show that you will be dealing with the reports of the Auditor-General with regard to reports of particular Ministries, agencies or State departments, so that we can enforce it. The practice is of course, a minimum seven days notice and everybody should appear. Anybody should appear. Sometimes, I see CSs and I do not know what they are coming to do. We should be dealing with accounting officers. Maybe, those others could be flower girls and flower boys accompanying them, if we have flower boys. PAC needs to deal with the people who are responsible for finances. Those are the people who should come. The PSs should come with all their technical personnel to help them respond to the various issues that the Auditor-General will have raised and the other issues that the Committee may wish to raise with them. If we can get your calendar of events, we can then circulate in advance. That should be part of the business of the Leader of the Majority Party to ensure that people who are scheduled to appear, particularly before PAC, appear without fail. People fall sick and I am sure that the Committee is not averse to that, but even then there should be reasonable notification that the person who was expected to attend may not be available. People do not just fail to turn up. Hon. Gumbo, we can sit and go through the programme and then we can structure it administratively. I am ready to assist your Committee to enforce attendance."
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