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    "id": 810318,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "The Committees are required to submit reports on a statement within two or three weeks. I am mindful of the Motion listed as Order No. 9. Let us not even talk about tomorrow. It is a matter that obviously requires your urgent attention. I am not going to prescribe periods at this time, but if after the House resumes no report is available, then the Member will be at liberty to stand in her place and raise the matter again. There is no debate. The Vice Chair is talking about what the Committee has been doing and I wanted to address that issue. Several departmental committees have been considering certain aspects of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, but they have not submitted their Reports. They are actually holding the House from beginning debates on those Motions. The lead Committee on that Bill is the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee and they are ready with their Report on the portions of that Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill which they were considering. The other parts that were being considered by other departmental committees have not been finalised. So, I want to direct that they all must ensure that those reports are now ready so that by the time the House proceeds on recess next week, the Chair of Justice and Legal Affairs Committee will have tabled the entire Report, which will attach the various other Reports from other Committees. That is the procedure we will adopt because that proposed statute has many proposed amendments. There is no question. This is not business, I must tell you. It cannot be that every small thing becomes a subject of debate. There is a lot of business which is listed. I want to encourage every Member who picks a copy of the Order Paper to go through it and see what is before the House, so that when we are engaged in these preliminary matters you know that you are actually not doing service to the House or yourself. The Leader of the Majority Party."
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