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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, I would like to alert you that, in keeping with the observations made yesterday, we gave directions and it is going to happen today during debate on this Bill. If it does not end today, it will be concluded at any other time. We will have researchers taking notes because some of the contributions by Members are very important. It is only fair that somebody take notes. At least, the Chairperson and the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee are present but I cannot see the Mover of the Bill. We must move away from assuming that when a mover of a Bill is called upon to reply, you just rise, thank Members for their contributions and tell them that you will take them on board during the Committee of the whole House. You say that, having heard nothing and you have not even had the benefit of looking at the HANSARD. Therefore, we have directed that, for purposes of giving value to the contributions, our own researchers who are attached to the Committees be present to take notes. The notes must be used to inform further discussions in the Committee as you sit to agree on proposals for amendments. Listening to the contributions made yesterday, there are several issues that Members have raised. Unless we have a way of capturing such points at an appropriate time, we may get to the Committee of the whole House, where Members raise issues about proposals for amendment, and find that there is so much debate. If the Committee, in the subsequent sitting considered what Members had said, it would help the understanding of the Members’ desire to propose amendments. We will proceed in that manner. Hon. George Oner had a balance of eight minutes. Since I have been keenly listening to the debate, even though I was not on the Chair, I am aware that he was warned by the person who was on the Chair that he had to be present. He came very early. Hon. Oner, you have a balance of eight minutes."
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