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    "id": 823088,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion, which I support. You know that 80 per cent of our time is spent in committees. We sit in committees, discussing things and writing reports. We have a serious challenge in this Parliament because the committee rooms are not conducive for serious meetings. The rooms are too small. The average number of Members of a departmental committee is 19. Sometimes you invite officials from the Government and they come in large numbers of about 30 officers and you are all squeezed in that room, yet you are transacting a very important matter of national concern. Definitely the outcome of your work will not be to the highest standard. I think something has to be done on the issue of availability of space for committee rooms, size of committee rooms and the conduciveness of those committee rooms because some of them are not conducive for serious meetings."
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