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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, to begin with, I want you to look at Standing Order No.36 and it is going to be read in conjunction with other Standing Orders. Standing Order No.36 (2) says: “Business shall be disposed of in the sequence in which it appears in the Order Paper or in such other sequence as the Speaker may, for the convenience of the House direct.” Standing Order No.38 states: “The Government shall have the right to have its business placed on the Order Paper in such sequence as it may determine.” To begin with, the Chair is going to share with you the communication between it and the Leader of Government Business. As far as the Chair is concerned, it does not talk to every member of the HBC. If the Chair of the HBC informs the Chair that this is how the Government would like the business of the day to be transacted and to relegate certain Motions and give preference to others, the Chair has no business in seeing any mischief in that. In addition to that, when it says: “For the convenience of the House”. The Chief Whip came to my office and indicated that it will be a problem passing these other Motions if this Motion is not disposed of for reasons best known to you all. The Chair has the responsibility and duty to understand the mood of the House and protect this country in the best possible way. We have very important Motions to be disposed of for the operationalization of the Constitution we all uphold. It is under those circumstances that the Chair cannot act out of vain, but in accordance with the Standing Orders and in the interest or the convenience of the House to accept the manner in which the Government wanted the business to be transacted today. Hon. Members, on whether the Motion can be amended through a point of order, yes, it is understandable that, indeed, it has not happened. The Chair is not about to have that happen now. However, we are now on Order No.10 which is taking preference over the others. As for the Motion, the Chair has got a notice of the amendment that essentially seeks to delete all the inadmissible aspects of that. The Chair has no problem reading that Motion as amended. However, that cannot be done now. It has to be done on the Floor by none other than the hon. Member who is moving the amended Motion."
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