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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I am saying that the laws that we pass in this House are operationalised through regulations. Five years ago, we passed the Engineers Act, a very important law for this country. I have raised this matter very many times. The regulations of that Act provide that key aspects of that law are to be effected through regulations. It is now five years from the year 2011. I have been raising this matter and I do not know why it is taking so long. Really, as engineers of this country, we are getting frustrated by the fact that those regulations have not come. That is the first point that I would like him to really explain to the House. That is because this matter has been outstanding for so long. Two, about a month ago, I addressed a Question to the Minister for Public Service on Chapter Thirteen, Values and Principles of Public Service. Just before we went on recess, the Leader of the Majority Party had said that matter was to be addressed by the Minister for Labour, but tt was not addressed. I raised his attention to the fact that the Question that I had raised touched on the values and principles of public service. He said that he will go and find out why a Question touching on values and principles of public service was apparently being directed to the Ministry of Labour. Lastly, as Public Accounts Committee, we are getting a bit frustrated. We did the Report of the 2013/2014 Financial Year and I want the country to understand that this is a Report which is 466 pages and doing that Report meant working very late into the night. This Parliament is governed by the Commonwealth rules and practices, and in the Commonwealth jurisdictions, reports of PAC normally take priority. Hon. Speaker, we have four Reports of PAC before this House. They are not being listed for debate. One of them is on the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). I The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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