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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to discuss this Motion. When I came here, I was extremely excited to support this Motion, but issues have been raised that have made me a bit discouraged. Still, I support the principle of the Motion. The issue whether it is a party Motion or not has been canvassed, although I do not like the way the Leader of the Majority Party did it. There was no decorum and there was no respect. But we can resolve that within the party. There is an issue in the composition of Members. There are very many people in this who are very busy. It is important if we can amend it and look at the Members. On the issue of ulterior motives, if every time we, as Members, want to do something and we impute improper or ulterior motives on our colleagues, remember outside there, it includes all of us. We start to show that we do not have faith in Parliament as a whole. If they were to do wrong things, we can come here and reject whatever they bring. That is not the way. Some Members who are committee Members working for 14 days will bring an issue. Regarding the Bill, I have looked at the Bill that was stood down. It is basically talking about taxation. It does not touch on regulation at all. Why I would not like this to be killed other than having amendments made of the membership, betting and gambling is additive. There is no 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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