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    "speaker_name": "Ms. A. Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I wish to seek your direction on a matter that could be related to what has happened to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, but it is not limited to that. It is with regard to the way this House addresses minority opinion. As an old hon. Member of this House, I have been basing my understanding of how the House relates to issues of dissenting opinion on my understanding of Standing Order No.179 (2) which states thus: - “The minutes of a select committee shall be kept in the same form as the Votes and Proceedings of a Committee of the Whole House: Provided that where a vote on a question is not unanimous, the names of the members voting for and against the question or declining to vote respectively shall be recorded in the minutes.” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the last nine years, I have confined my minority opinion to the minutes of a Report. There was a period of time in the Ninth Parliament when I and another Member had a dissenting view in a Committee and we raised the matter with the Speaker requesting that we have a separate Report from that of the majority. At that point, I was advised that our Standing Orders do not provide for a threshold of having a dissenting Report. I am not saying that this should apply to the current Report by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, but we have a lot of dissents in Committees. I want to withdraw the aspect of anticipating debate. However, I still want to urge you that sometimes we relate to issues of a dissenting Report and include it in the Report of a Departmental Committee in such a substantive manner that the flow of the Committee is lost. I, therefore, seek your direction as to how we should proceed."
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