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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, let us proceed in a much more orderly way. Since Hon. Lessonet’s Committee is a Select Committee, rather that present funny documents from some quarters, he should present a Report that has been adopted by his Committee. You have a Committee of Members of this House. They should sit, interrogate what is in that document you got from whomever or wherever and table a Report in this House. That Report must be debated and adopted by the members of the Committee so that Members can have an opportunity to interrogate the matter. Otherwise, proceeding in the manner we are doing is like we are headless. It is like we are headed nowhere. We need to see a Report which the House will either adopt or reject and send Hon. Lessonet’s Committee back to the drawing board or from wherever they will have come from. I think that is a better route. Hon. Lessonet, rather than you sneaking in with documents from wherever – whether they are as a result of negotiations or whatever – you should have called a meeting of your Committee. The Members of this House are at liberty to attend the meetings of your Committee, in keeping with our rules, so that they can understand what it is that you are tabling in this House. Your Committee should have adopted a report saying: “This is what should be presented in the House.” You walk into the House carrying some papers you said you collected from some place through negotiations. Your Committee has some Members. Are they part of this document? They should have helped you to carry those papers because that is the normal way a Committee reports to the House. Hon. Lessonet has adopted a new method of sneaking in with papers from some place and claiming that he is informing Members. Hon. Lessonet, if we allow you to use this method, you will be misleading Members. Therefore, take back your documents, call a meeting of your Committee and discuss the matter with Members. The rest of the Members of this House are at liberty to attend the proceedings of your meetings. If you want the meeting to be done in this Chamber, we will make the Chamber available for you as a Committee to explain to Members. I am sure that the Members of your Committee are not privy to the information that you have just deposited to the House. The Clerk is advised to give you back your documents. We cannot allow you to table what you purport to be coming from your Committee. The way to present documents here is through the Committee. It should be the form of a report that should have been adopted by your Committee."
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