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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "both sides of the House last time. That is not excusable. I would hope that we get tighter rules to address such situations. The quality for committee discussions depends on the intensity with which Members apply themselves during the proceedings of committees. Technical appearances at committees undermine the capacity of committees to produce harmonious reports at the end of the day. We should have a way in which we get certain minimum critical participation in committees that are always involved in sometimes fairly controversial work. It might be the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) or other committees as well. There must be a way in which we can find a mechanism for monitoring participation to be able to enrich the Committees. As I conclude my comments on this, we are going to go into a lot of vetting. I know vetting is not an interview. I would like to ask the technical side of Parliament – the research side and other supporting departments – that we have them in place. In the research they do, it is extremely important to raise the fact that we are not doing interviews. It is important to understand the opinion of the person you are talking to on the subject you are talking about. That can come from public statements. The research needs to be more nuanced so that in challenging the persons that you are vetting, you want to challenge their beliefs in relative to what they are doing, not their qualifications. That is done by another team. I have found that aspect of support at the committees has been wanting. I hope that in the 12th Parliament, we will do a lot better and get much more relevant and focused background checks that will help the committees to focus on those issues. Thank you."
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