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    "id": 619388,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, I wish to make the following observation that the number of 30 Members without cards is too large thus frustrating our efforts to do electronic voting. I would like to encourage those who may have misplaced their cards, as I am told that Members do not lose their cards but they misplace them, to make efforts to retrieve them from wherever they may be so that, in future, we do not take too much time voting. The intention of having electronic voting was to make work more efficient. The doors may now be opened and the Bars drawn. Following the result of this Division, I wish to guide the House as follows with regard to the BPS. The BPS was laid on the Table of the House pursuant to Standing Order No.232(1), and Section 25(2) of the Public Finance Management Act. For avoidance of doubt, the two provisions require the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the National Treasury to submit the BPS by 15th of February every year. The National Treasury has never observed the requirements of the law as today is the first sitting day after 15th February. Standing Order No.232(4) requires that upon being laid on the Table of the House, the BPS shall stand committed to each Departmental Committee for deliberations according to their respective mandates. The BPS is accordingly committed to each Departmental Committee. However, given that the House has voted not to reconstitute the Budget and Appropriations Committee, the Committees are, therefore, required to make their recommendations. Hon. Members, this is important because in your own Standing Orders, you have created Standing Order No.217, the Liaison Committee, which is a Committee chaired by the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and comprises also among others, the first Chairperson of the Speaker’s Panel as the Vice-Chair of that Committee and the chairpersons of all other committees of the National Assembly."
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