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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, a precedent of the procedure for nominating the persons was set by the 11th Parliament. Therefore, I see no need to reinvent the wheel. The only departure is that the Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity will this time consider the applications but not the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs as was the case in 2014. This departure is informed by the understanding that the process which leads to the appointment of commissioners under Section 17(1)(b) of the Act is essentially a recruitment process but not the ordinary approval process of nominees as contemplated under Standing Order No. 216(5)(f) on the mandate of the Departmental Committees. In addition, under the current Standing Order No. 212(c), the Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity is the relevant Committee of the House which is charged with the mandate of considering matters related to national cohesion. Indeed, in the old dispensation of the Standing Orders, the said Committee was a joint committee of both Houses. Consequently, it could not have handled the recruitment which the law places under the exclusive jurisdiction of the National Assembly. Given the then prevailing circumstances, the relevant committee of the House at the time was the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs which is not the case today."
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