27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
The list of the people who are going to be celebrated is just a pale picture of the people we are supposed to be celebrating. However, we cannot reverse that issue. This Bill will create a different scenerio of selecting those heroes. I am not saying that the people who have been selected are not heroes, but I am saying that among the people who we were supposed to see in that list are people who have made very serious contribution to this country. This Bill is going to cure that disease. It is going to cure that anomaly. The ...
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27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
serious contributions in the fields of science, social work, economics etcetera are recognized so that future generations can emulate them. With those few remarks, I wish to support the Bill.
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27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much. Before I second this Bill, I would like to correct my Vice-Chair that my constituency is called “Emurua Dikirr”. So, there has to be “irr” at the end.
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27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Having said that, I would like to second this Bill. I think the last Parliament oversaw the role of this Parliament and it could have been because of the many functions which were vested on the 11th Parliament by the Constitution. That is why in their Bill, they denied this House the privilege and right to look into the TJRC Report.
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27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
I second this Bill because we want to have that Report in this House. We want that Report to be tabled in this House because the role of Parliament as enshrined in the Constitution is to debate matters of concern to the people. We are the representatives of the people and we have the right that is vested on us by the Constitution to debate matters of concern to the people.
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27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
The reason the last Parliament denied this House that privilege or right is not known. I second this Bill because this is mandated by the Constitution. The mandate of the Committee is also to study the programmes of the Ministries and their departments. The reports of whichever commissions that are annexed to those departments must come to this House. The reports must also be discussed in this House. We have had very many commissions whose reports have ended up gathering dust in the shelves. We do not want those reports to end up in the shelves. This Report should be ...
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27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
We want to move those amendments because if you look at the mandate or the functions of the Commission, it was investigating substantive matters which are very important to the people of this country. Among the matters which were investigated by this Commission were the economic crimes, the irregular and illegal acquisition of land and the economic marginalization. Those are issues which we cannot allow to go without knowing exactly what was written in the Report.
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27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
We also feel that we need to amend the Act so that we can allow this House to look at that Report because matters of investigations are very crucial. If you look at some of the matters---
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27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I can continue next time.
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13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
I am here, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. It was just an intervention on the same.
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