12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
The Member for Alego Usonga, you have only four minutes. Are you able to deliver that in four minutes?
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12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
I am sorry the Member for Alego Usonga. Now that you are beginning a new point, is that not the best place to keep your points for the next sitting?
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12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
You will have a balance of eight minutes on Wednesday, next week. So, come to the Chamber early enough so that you can utilise the balance of eight minutes that you still have.
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12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Members, we have come to the end of today’s sitting. Therefore, the House stands adjourned until this afternoon at 2.30 p.m.
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12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
The House rose at 12.30 p.m.
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12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
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5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Third Report of the Procedure and House Rules Committee on Amendments to the Standing Orders, laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 4th December, 2013. Hon. Speaker, the Committee laid a Report before the House considering Standing Order No.141. You know that examination, enactment and legislation are regarded as the main business of this House. The process of proposal formulation and drafting of a Bill usually is long winded. According to the Standing Orders that were proposed by the Tenth Parliament and have ...
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5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker before I was interrupted with that very good commercial break, I am even more attracted to the submissions I was making that Members will find it very difficult to have their proposals disposed of in the House because of the nature of clogs that come with the elaborate procedures that we have in our Standing Orders. So, if I were to bring a Bill, by the time the session expires for several other reasons my Bill perhaps could be in the pre-publication stage or it could be in the clog of being disposed of, one way or the ...
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5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly:
This will lead to a lot of frustration amongst Members. We are also limited by the infrastructure that we have, including the staff that we have to process all these things.
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5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly:
The Procedure Committee, therefore, brings an amendment to this particular Standing Order proposing that Bills will not lapse necessarily in the first session after they have been published or after they have been read a First time. That way, Members could relax knowing that if they have a Bill which is running, it will still go to the next session. Therefore, the text that we read this morning is on subsection 2.
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