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    "content": "So, if any caucus writes to the Clerk requesting financial assistance, it must indicate which Vote that financial assistance is to be drawn from. I also want to put it on record that it is true that there is one caucus which has really pestered my office and the leadership in general for the last one month. I know they have also gone to chairs of some committees demanding that they be sponsored to attend the UN Conference on the Status of Women in New York. I am not sure that I know the legislative objective of the particular caucus, save for what the Member for Kiminini has just shouted out from his place. Please, be advised. Even for that, the appropriate committee of the House to recommend Members is the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. So, there is no need for the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, the Departmental Committee on Energy, the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, and the Departmental Committee on Education and Research. All those committees are writing letters. Some of the chairs have even brought some of the people they prefer to recommend. However, I do not want to disappoint. Let it be known that a decision has been taken that the only committee to recommend is the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. So, those other committees do not even succumb to writing letters to me because they will not be honoured. The budget of the House and the committees is dealt with at the committee level. So, if you, as a committee, want to misuse your budgets on status of those other things, it is up to you. If it is a legislative agenda, advance it here and not in New York. What legislative objective? Do it here and be present. I have just seen those things for Members who are not present. So, when you say you want to go to New York, what legislative agenda are you going to advance there? The Leader of the Majority Party has indicated that he is even a patron of the pastoralists’ caucus. He has acknowledged that, but they do not meet within the precincts of Parliament. That is a fact."
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