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    "id": 95481,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, the business of generating Government business is with the Government. It is the responsibility of the Government! The Bills are supposed to be brought by the Government. If sufficient business is not brought by the Government, the Chair’s hands are tied as an ex-officio member. So, the presumption is that with a proper leadership structure, there are people within the Government who are going to take the sole responsibility of making sure that business is there to be transacted. It is a matter that we all think about. But, nonetheless, the Chair has done what it could under the law and to the best of its own ability. For us to have more business to be transacted on the Floor of the House, the Chair can only, again, exhort the Government side to generate more business. It is not lost to the Chair that the Government actually wanted the House to adjourn. So, basically, under the circumstances, that is the best the Chair can do. For the purposes of moving Government Motions on the Floor of the House and, more so, Adjournment Motions which are traditionally done by the Leader of Government Business, the joint Chief Whips have done that over the period. I do not know how much more they can do themselves. That is because the business of the Government is generated by Ministers and their Ministries in consultation with the Attorney-General for that matter. Nonetheless, we have no choice but to adjourn because we do not have any other business to transact."
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