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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Order Members! Those who are making their way into the Chamber slowly, please try to hasten. Hon. Members, as I have always said in the past, among the key things that give responsibility and functions to Parliament is legislation. If any Member has looked at the Order Paper, he or she must have seen that Order No.18 is on the Committee of the whole House. However, when I look at the number of Members who are present, I wonder how many Members come here to legislate. After today and over the weekend, everybody will be shouting in the villages how they have been making laws. The constituents should look around and see how their representatives make laws. You cannot go to make laws in the Members’ Lobby Room. That is not where laws are made. Surely, it cannot be in the Lobby Room. On Tuesday this week, the Committee of the whole House on this Bill was adjourned to accommodate certain concerns which were raised and more particularly the issues raised by the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Sports, Arts and Culture about the various proposed amendments by his Committee. I thought every Member will be present today and the House would be full to hear what the Chairperson of the Committee will be saying and various other chairpersons who have proposed amendments to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 21 of 2019). My expectation was that everybody, having rested over Labour Day or having laboured sufficiently, should now be here to legislate. Forget about those other labours that you may have engaged in."
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