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    "id": 786733,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "(i) In respect of Special Motions for approval for appointment of persons to various state and public offices, appearing in the Order Papers for the period before the short recess, debate shall be limited as follows: A maximum of forty five (45) minutes, with not more than ten (10) minutes for the Mover in moving and five (5) minutes in replying, and not more than five (5) minutes for any other Member speaking, including the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party; and further that priority in speaking shall be accorded to the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party, in that order; and, (ii) In respect of the ordinary individual Members’ Motions, debate shall be limited in the following manner: A maximum of two (2) hours with not more than fifteen (15) minutes for the Mover and five (5) minutes for each other Member speaking, except the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party, who shall be limited to a maximum of ten (10) minutes each, and that five (5) minutes before the expiry of the time, the Mover shall be called upon to reply; and that priority in speaking shall be accorded to the Leader of the Majority Party, the Leader of the Minority Party and the Chairperson of the relevant Departmental Committee, in that order. Hon. Speaker, this is also another decision that the HBC that you chair reached last night. The first one is on the matter of this morning’s Motions on vetting; that every report has been allocated 45 minutes because of the number. The HBC, on the matter in (ii), was cognizant that sometimes the whole Wednesday morning we deal with only one Motion, and we have so many Private Members’ Motions. So we have agreed and made a decision that every Wednesday morning we can do two Motions, so that each Motion we allocate two hours. If we do not do that, then there are many Members who are queuing in the line with very important Motions. So every Wednesday, during Private Members’ business, the House can deal with at least two Private Members’ Motions, each with an allocated time of two hours, with the Mover having 15 minutes, each Member five minutes and priority being given to the leadership. We looked at the number of Motions we have balloted—they are many—and we felt that so that more Members get an opportunity, we must reduce the time. And we expect this to begin after the recess, not tomorrow, if we approve it. So this Motion will come into effect when we come back from the 10-day recess. I beg to move and ask Hon. Mbadi to second."
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