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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "In future, it is important that Committees dealing with such matters apprise themselves of the provisions of this Act and more particularly Section 34 so that whatever recommendations they make, the House is not seen to act in vain. This is because, if the House were to approve and the Cabinet Secretary were to then write back and say that they have not been consulted, it would mean that a vital step which you put in the law yourselves in the last Parliament will have been omitted. Therefore, the resolution may not be implementable for lack of compliance with this relevant provision of the Act. Therefore, I am deferring putting of the Question and directing the Clerk of the National Assembly to write to the relevant CS to seek his or her opinion or recommendation, which has been omitted. Depending on what the recommendation the CS will give, then I will guide the House on how to proceed with the Motion, which has been fully debated but only remains for the Question to be put. I do not want to put the Question as it may put the House in an embarrassing situation whereby its own resolution becomes un- implementable for failure to observe some of the procedural requirements of the Act; not just our Standing Orders, but that particular Act."
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