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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The issue of CS answering Questions has to some extent been confined to committees. It has in some way demeaned the importance of that session. I remember in the last Parliament, this was a very important issue. We even thought of ways of bringing the CSs into the House to answer Questions. Although Questions are put by individual Members, many times, they have far reaching effects at the national level. Many Members would thus like to participate. Before that, when we had the parliamentary system, Ministers used to answer Questions on the Floor. I was involved in preparing answers for them. Ministers were very keen to make serious preparations, but this thing is increasingly starting to look like a committee affair. You just find few Members of a committee participating and even asking supplementary questions. I noticed early in the last Parliament that there were notices in the television sets all over Parliament precincts which were indicating the time the CSs would be answering Questions or events taking place in various committees. In this case of CSs answering Questions, it should be made public. If Members do not come to this session on Thursday, there will be no way of knowing the CSs who will be answering Questions. If they do not look at the Order Paper on Monday, they will not know. I suggest that we should make this more public and use the screens in the precincts of Parliament to know what time which CS is answering what Question. This will bring back the significance of this session. Thank you."
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