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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "We must emphasise that if you have the honour of being chosen by your colleagues to chair a committee or to deputise the chair, why would you allow disorder in a committee? Any Member purporting to be a friend, even if he is an enemy, should be kicked out in accordance with Standing Orders. That is why we provide security personnel. If a Member just goes into a committee meeting for purposes of disrupting it, he should be kicked out. Unless a Member is going to give some input that he or she feels is going to help the committee in making a better decision…If you are not a member of the committee, you do not have the power to vote. You should know that your participation should be limited to assisting the committee to arrive at a fair determination of the matter that may be before the committee or arrive at a decision that helps the country to move forward. I am also alive to current trends and I have had occasion to discuss with both the Leader of the Majority Party and Leader of the Minority Party. The technical staff that we have employed to help committees are shoved aside. Members do not want to be given advice. Indeed, even those committees that consume the services of other agencies that are attached to Parliament traditionally, if you do not listen to the advice that may come from, say, the officers sent to you by the Auditor-General, the Controller of Budget or the Inspectorate of State Corporations, then just tell us to withdraw them. They will be happy. You suddenly want to assume that because you are the Member, you know everything. Some have complained that they The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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