{"id":887241,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/887241/?format=json","text_counter":131,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"On that one, we are unlikely to start saying that all Members want to listen. Those who have interest in a particular matter that has been raised by a Member are at liberty to attend that committee meeting on a particular date appointed. They are allowed to field supplementary questions. Those are the rules and the practice. If, for instance, you hear that the Member for Gem has asked a Question about drought and you have interest in drought matters as I suspect you would be, then on the day appointed for a Cabinet Secretary to respond, nothing prevents you from attending and fielding some supplementary questions. I have just picked drought as an example because it is cross-cutting. 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."}