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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "this regard, the Deputy Speaker, in his capacity as the Chair of the Liaison Committee, will be communicating to various chairs of Departmental Committees with regard to which Committee will consider which aspect of the last two Bills – the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill Nos.12 and 13. If you read through them, you will appreciate that both seek to amend a raft of existing legislations. Therefore, to avoid a situation where a proposal to amend a law dealing with agriculture and another one dealing with organisation of the courts would be considered by one Committee - and for efficiency purposes - the Deputy Speaker will be communicating which committee will be dealing with which aspects of each statute that is to be amended. This is so that even when we engage with the public during the public hearings, the stakeholders who will appear before committees will be clear. Sometimes it may be very frustrating when medical doctors are told to appear before the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to be told about the hierarchy of the courts and the jurisdictions each has. That is just to clarify. If you read through those two Bills, you will see that they propose to amend, not in very significant ways but very many Bills. One of the two Bills requires only consideration by this House yet the other one would require consideration by both the National Assembly and the Senate. Therefore, Hon. Deputy Speaker will, the soonest possible – maybe, in the cause of tomorrow or early next week – make that communication. Next Order."
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