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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. As a matter of procedure, I know in the last Parliament there were quite a number of Members of Parliament who did not show up and they had some very good Motions. Their intentions were that their Motions be discussed in the 11th Parliament. I think it is also advisable now for the new Members to go to the Table Office and pick those Motions because some of them were very important. I am saying this because I was in the Committee on Implementation and there were so many other Members who never had an opportunity to come back. In light of what the Leader of the Majority Party has just said, we need to go there and give our Motions. I think that is something that is so important for us and I also support what has just been moved by the Leader of the Majority Party. It is important and I am saying this in light of what happened. Private Members’ Motions are very critical. They assist individual Members to address at the constituency level and also generally at the national level some of the very pertinent issues that have arisen. Maybe, they might be looked at as local within the constituency but finally they end up assisting the national outlook and I think it is important for us not to ignore that. I hope by the time this House is properly constituted and the Committees are in place, we can be able to discuss those Private Members’ Motions and other issues. This is a place where Members have an opportunity to be heard."
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