28 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Make it short because we just want to see where the discrepancy is. The discrepancy is just the terminology or the words you have used. She is using “around” and you are using “location”. She has actually fractured them into (a) and (b). So, in (b), she is saying that the people who may be displaced and in your second phrase of your definition, you are saying “people who are affected”. Are those two people equally affected; the people who could be displaced and the people who are affected? So that we have one definition which is clear cut. We ...
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28 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Do I hear you?
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28 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to report that the Committee of the whole House has considered the Mining Bill, National Assembly Bill No.9 of 2014 and approved the same with amendments.
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28 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, they say that good laws are made in the morning. Today, we have disapproved it. Good laws are made when ladies and gentlemen sit down in the cooler hours of the evening to consider what is most important for this country. I want to thank particularly the Chair of this Committee. She has led us with clarity and seems to have the entire Mining Industry on her finger tips. She is explaining every clause and making us able to debate this issue with a lot of comfort. Hon. Oner, who is also a Member of the ...
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22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Leader of Majority Party, I propose we get serious on this matter.
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22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Member for Gem, I appreciate you, but I want the proposer to be heard in silence. This is a very important Bill that we are looking at.
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22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much. Member of Ainabkoi, you are the Chair of the relevant Departmental Committee. I am trying to manage my time just before you proceed. You know that at 5.30 p.m., the House has resolved to adjourn. Nobody is imposing on you a duty to finish, but it would always be neater if by the time we adjourn at 5.30 p.m., we have proposed the Question. That way, a Bill becomes the property of the House. So, although nobody is putting a limit for you, I just want to have you look at the clock, so that you ...
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22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
what you need to say, and so that we adjourn at a time when the Question has been proposed. It becomes neater that way for the HANSARD.
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22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Chairman of the relevant Departmental Committee, may I ask you two questions: Do we have the Committee’s Report analyzing this Bill? Is it available in the Table Office?
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22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
I will have to check the provisions of the Standing Orders. You know this Bill is a big one just like the Companies Bill is going to be a big one. In effect, it will be good if Members read through your report. That is why your Committee exists; it exists to help Members digest a particular report, so that there are only a few issues that Members can narrow on. I do not think Members are detailed. You know we do not look at the details; rather, we look at the general policy that the legislation is going to ...
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