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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, if you read the Standing Orders clearly… I only see the ladies outside the Chamber in different funny colours. Please, do not bring that to the Chamber. Hon. Members, the Committees of this House are supposed to be a microcosm of the House such that, if I am not here, there is always somebody in the Chair. I do not understand why it is that chairs of committees find it very difficult to delegate to their vice-chairpersons. Each Committee has a vice-chair. They can also delegate to any other member of the committee. What you transact is not personal to you. At the end of the day, the reports will come to the House and the House can make a decision one way or another. I encourage the chairs of committees that if for whatever reason you are unavailable for a meeting, you have a deputy. In the event your deputy is also not there, the committee should go ahead and elect one among itself to chair and proceed with business. Otherwise, this idea of when the chair is not present, there is nothing that happens is reflecting very badly. You are supposed to mirror what happens in the Chamber. That is why there is a Deputy Speaker and Members of the Speaker’s Panel. That should be replicated in the Committees as well. With that said, allow me to recognise officers from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) who are seated in the Speaker’s Gallery. The officers are on a benchmarking visit to the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) to share experiences and learn some of our human resource aspects, including the ICT-based payroll system popularly known as the Smart HR Payroll System. The team comprises of six members from the divisions 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."
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