9 Jun 2020 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker Sir.
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9 Jun 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker Sir, I seek your indulgence and leave of the House. Since you have said that after order No.10, we would wish to go back to Statements, in Order No.11, we have Committee of the Whole on this Pandemic Bill. Everything we are discussing is the Bill. If we go this way, the pandemic will be over before we pass our Bill. I kindly request that we complete the Committee of the Whole and then come to Statements.
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9 Jun 2020 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Chairperson, I beg to move: - THAT the Bill be amended by deleting Clause 3.
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9 Jun 2020 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Chairperson, I beg to move - THAT, Clause 9 of the Bill be amended by inserting the following new paragraphs immediately after paragraph (j)— (k) assess the country’s capacity to deal with the pandemic; (l) develop and publicize an appropriate national plan to manage the pandemic; (m) develop an appropriate post pandemic recovery framework for all sectors affected by the pandemic; (n) develop a community engagement strategy to manage the pandemic; and, (o) provide up-to-date information to the public on the pandemic and the steps the Committee has taken to manage the pandemic and mitigate against its impact.
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9 Jun 2020 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Chairperson, I had a point on that one.
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9 Jun 2020 in Senate:
Yes, Madam Temporary Chairperson. Before you put the question, I just want to state for the record that the Committee has no objection to Sen. Farhiya’s amendment to Clause 9. It is just an addition of one of the sub-clauses.
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9 Jun 2020 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Chairperson, I beg to move -
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9 Jun 2020 in Senate:
THAT, Clause 13 of the Bill be amended in sub-clause (1) by (a) deleting the word “bi-weekly status reports providing” appearing immediately after the words “submit to Parliament” and substituting therefor the words “once in every two weeks a status report providing information on”; and (b) Inserting the following new subparagraph immediately after subparagraph (iii) in paragraph (a) - (iv) Resource mobilization and expenditure on the pandemic; The essence of these amendments is to make sure that twice a month; there are reports to Parliament by the national Government during a pandemic as well as reports on expenditure and resource ...
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9 Jun 2020 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Chairperson, I beg to move - THAT the Bill be amended by deleting Clause 19.
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9 Jun 2020 in Senate:
It is a deletion. It affects Clauses 19 to 24. We will go step by step although I think that we could have done all of them. It is the same arrangement.
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