22 Nov 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is absolutely nothing to do with the substance of what has been urged before you, but it arises out of your own communication that you are going to give tomorrow afternoon. If you are going to make a ruling tomorrow afternoon---
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22 Nov 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, you will give further directions tomorrow afternoon. In those circumstances, is it not only fair that the First Reading of the Bill comes after those further directions from the Chair?
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22 Nov 2011 in National Assembly:
Order! Mr. Mututho, you will have to summarise those issues when this matter comes up again for debate, because our time has run out.
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22 Nov 2011 in National Assembly:
Hon. Members, we now adjourn our proceedings to tomorrow, Wednesday, 23rd November, 2011, at 9.00 a.m.
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22 Nov 2011 in National Assembly:
The House rose at 6.30 p.m.
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17 Nov 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, did you hear the Assistant Minister say that part of the problem was that engineering students were being taught by people who were not qualified in engineering. How can a whole Assistant Minister stand before this House and say that they condoned a situation where students were subjected to illiteracy and yet, he did not take measures? How on earth can you allow engineering students to be taught engineering by non-engineers?
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17 Nov 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, in order to give effect to this crackdown that he will apply after 8.30 p.m. is he aware that the Traffic Act requires him to make regulations and gazette them to enable him to curtail the movement of vehicular traffic at any time?
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17 Nov 2011 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. My point of order was whether they have invoked the provisions of the Traffic Act in order to do what he has been doing. That is all I am asking and he is not answering that question.
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16 Nov 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, my concern is that it has become a practice for Ministers to come and seek your guidance. The reason we have the Office of the Attorney-General guaranteed with security of tenure in the Constitution is that the holder of that office is the chief legal advisor. Before they come to seek your advice, they should, internally, refer the matter to the Attorney-General and seek advice rather than come and take the time of this National Assembly by requiring you to give guidance where the law provides for the Government’s chief legal advisor, including a Solicitor- General to ...
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16 Nov 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, apart from expressing sympathy with the point of order that I raised, you have not given any ruling on whether it is in order for Ministers to come and waste Parliamentary time on issues that could be determined by the person employed by taxpayers to give that advice.
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