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GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. F. K. Owusu-Adjapong | Mr. Chairman, it is mygreat privilege and honour to stand beforethis august body and House to proposeEbenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes, as theSpeaker for this Parliament of ours. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Sekyi Hughes was born in Cape Coast on thSeptember, .He had his basic education at Cape CoastGovernment Boys School and attende... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tachie | Any seconder to that motion? |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Sheikh I. C. Quaye | Mr. Chairman, I second themotion. [Hear, Hear.] |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tachie | Any other nominations? |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. A. S. K. Bagbin | Mr. Chairman, I stand here to urgemy Colleagues to support my proposalthat we elect as the Speaker, Mr. Peter AlaAdjetey [Hear, Hear.] Mr. Chairman, Mr. Peter Ala Adjetey was born on the thof August, , wentthrough a very excellent education,started with St. Paul's School in La, AccraBishop Boys School, Accra Academy,Un... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tachie | Any seconder? |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. E. K. D. Adjaho | Mr. Chairman, I rise to second the motionably and brilliantly moved by the hon.Minority Leader, that Mr. Peter AlaAdjetey do take the Chair of this Houseas Speaker, in line with the Standing Order8 (5) of this House. Mr. Chairman, I do sobecause the national interest and myconscience allow me to second themotion. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tachie | Hon. Members-elect, any other nominations, please? [Pause.] Inthat event, I am enjoined under StandingOrder (1) which states: Where more than one person is proposed a motion shall be madeand seconded in respect of eachperson, and the House shallproceed to elect a Speaker by secretballot in accordance with theprovisions... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tachie | Leadership, can you nominate a member each from your sideto witness the counting of the ballotpapers? a.m. [Balloting commenced.] |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tachie | A reminder: As I stated earlier, each ballot paper shall be foldedso that the name written on it cannot beseen. The ballot papers shall then becollected by an officer of Parliament, andcounted at the Table by the Clerk who shallthen declare the results. So you shouldwrite the name of your preferred candidateon the ball... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Some hon. Members-elect | Yes. a.m. [Ballot papers collected] Ballot papers counted and results declared as follows: Mr. Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes Mr. Peter Ala Adjetey |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tachie | Hon. Members-elect, I accordingly declare Mr. Ebenezer BegyinaSekyi Hughes as the Speaker-elect ofParliament. [Hear, Hear.] |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tachie | Hon. Members-elect, the hon. Majority Leader now conducts theSpeaker-elect to the Chamber. [Hear,Hear.] |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. J. A. Tia | Mr. Chairman, I want to place on record [Interruptions.] |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tachie | Hon. Member, you are out of order. I am not supposed to do all these [Uproar.] I am supposed to conductelections which have been fullyconducted. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Some hon. Members-elect | Sit down, sit down. [Uproar.] |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tia | He cannot rule on Order. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Some hon. Members-elect | Allow, allow. Sit down! |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tia | Mr. Chairman, the House is not yet in full session and we have noSpeaker to rule on the Orders. So, Mr.Chairman [Interruption.] |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tachie | Hon. Member, please sit down. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tia | So, Mr. Chairman, I want to put on record that at the end of thecounting, Mr. Sekyi Hughes had votes and Mr. Peter Ala Adjetey had votes, making a total of , which iswrong [Uproar.] Mr. Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes was conducted into the Chamber. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tachie | Mr. Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes, you have just been electedto the high office of the Speaker of thisHouse. [Hear, Hear.] May I ask if youwould submit to the will of this House. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. E. B. S. Hughes | I will. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Tachie | In that event, may I now respectfully invite His Lordship, the ChiefJustice to administer the Oath ofAllegiance and the Oath of Speaker to Mr.Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes. [Hear,Hear.] Mr. Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes took and subscribed the Oath ofAllegiance and Speaker's Oathadministered by the Chief Justice, Mr.Ju... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | His Lordship, the Chief Justice, My Lords, both spiritual andtemporal, hon. Members of Parliamentelect, Your Excellencies, Nananom, Niime,Naame, Representatives of all politicalparties here present, Press Corp, Ladiesand Gentlemen [Hear, Hear.] Today is a great day in my life. Let me thank, first the Great architect of... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | We would continue with our work. Hon. Members, may I call fornominations for the post of First DeputySpeaker. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. A. O. Aidooh | Mr. Speaker, I beg to move, under Standing Orders (5) and12 (1), (2) and (3) that Mr. FreddieWosemawu Armah Blay do take the Chairof this House as First Deputy Speaker. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Wosemawu Blay is a lawyer by profession, educated atAdisadel College in Cape Coast,University of Ghana, Legon, and theGhana Law School... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | Will an hon. Member second the nomination? Ketu South |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. E. K. D. Adjaho | Mr. Speaker, I second the motion for the election of hon.Freddie Blay as the First Deputy Speakerof this honourable House. [Hear, Hear.] |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | Are there any more nominations? [Pause.] Hon. Members,there being no other nomination and byvirtue of the power in me vested, I sodeclare him elected as First DeputySpeaker. [Hear, Hear.] Hon. Members, now may I have nominations for the post of SecondDeputy Speaker. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu | Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Orders (1), (2) and (3), and in tandem with StandingOrder (5), I beg to move, that hon. AlhajiMalik Al-Hassan Yakubu, Member ofParliament for Yendi, do take the Chair ofthis House as Second Deputy Speaker. [Hear, Hear] Mr. Speaker, the hon. Alhaji Al-Hassan Yakubu is a lawyer by profes... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | Is there any hon. Member supporting this motion? |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. Kwame Osei-Prempeh | Mr. Speaker, I beg to second the nomination. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | Are there any other nominations? noon. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. John Tia | Mr. Speaker, in accordance with Standing Order , I begto move, that this House do elect hon.Kenneth Dzirasah as the Second DeputySpeaker. Mr. Speaker, the hon. Kenneth Dzirasah was born some years ago inTefle in the Volta Region and had thebenefit of secondary school education atZion College, Anloga, Bishop HermanColle... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | Do we have any seconder, please? |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Mr. E. T. Mensah | Mr. Speaker, I beg to second the motion. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | Do we have any more nominations? If there are no morenominations, then we have to go by ourStanding Orders and I refer in particularto Standing Orders and (2), that is,ballot must be taken and the Clerks arehereby directed to take ballot. [Pause.] Hon. Members, because we do not have much time I would humbly ask hon.Me... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | May I give you notice that the Chief Justice and the other Judgesof the Superior Court would want to takeleave of us. [His Lordship the Chief Justice and Justices of the Supreme Court took leaveof the House at p.m.] p.m. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | May I declare the results of the ballot Alhaji Malik Al-Hassan Yakubu Dzirasah I therefore declare elected as Second Deputy Speaker, hon. Alhaji MalikYakubu.[Hear, Hear.] Election of Deputy Speaker[MR. SPEAKER] Hon. Members, may I therefore congratulate both the First and SecondDeputy Speakers and I wish them well onbe... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | Hon. Members, we would now withdraw from the Chamber toreceive His Excellency the President-electand escort him to the House. [Mr. Speaker, led by the Clerks-at-Table, withdraws to usher in the President-elect, Mr. J. A. Kufuor.] Oath of Allegiance and Oath of Office |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | Hon. Members, I would now invite His Lordship, Mr. JusticeGeorge Kingsley Acquah to swear in theVice President-elect, Alhaji Aliu Mahama. The Vice President-elect, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, took and subscribed the Oathof Allegiance and the Oath of Office[Administered by His Lordship the ChiefJustice, Mr. Justice George Kings... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | Hon. Members, I now have the singular honour and privilege to invite His Excellency the President-elect,Mr. J. A. Kufuor. The President-elect, Mr. J. A. Kufuor, took and subscribed the Oath ofAllegiance and the Oath of Office[Administered by this Lordship the ChiefJustice, Mr. Justice George KingsleyAcquah]. |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | The first Gentleman of this country, Mr. J. A. Kufuor, Presidentof the Republic of Ghana to deliver hisinaugural address to the nation. Inaugural Address by the President |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | President of the Republic of Ghana | Your ExcellenciesBrother Presidents, Your Excellencies VicePresidents, Hon. Speakers of theParliaments of Ghana and Ethiopia,Distinguished Representatives of friendlynations, My Lord Chief Justice, hon.Members of Parliament, Your ExcellenciesMembers of the Diplomatic Corps, OurRespected Traditional Rulers,Distinguished... |
GhanaParliament_07-01-2005 | 07-01-2005 | Speaker | On my own behalf and on behalf of the House, I would like toexpress our gratitude to H.E. the Presidentfor the Inaugural Address. The House was adjourned at p. m. till thJanuary, at a.m. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | Order! Order! Let me read a correspondence from His Excellency thePresident. th January Absence from Ghana In accordance with Article of the Constitution, I John Agyekum Kufuor,President of the Republic of Ghana, wishto notify you and Parliament that I shallbe travelling to Libreville, Gabon to attendan A.U. Peace and ... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. A. S. K. Bagbin | Mr. Speaker, we thank His Excellency thePresident for the message that he isabsenting himself from the country. ButMr. Speaker, if my understanding of article59 of the Constitution is correct, thisnotice should be prior notice. And withyour permission, I may quote the article: The President shall not leave Ghana withou... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. F. K. Owusu-Adjapong | Mr. Speaker, I think we need to make clear what the import of thisarticle is. The timing is not when theletter is read to Parliament; the timing iswhen the letter is addressed to Mr.Speaker; and that is what is clearly statedin this article The President shall not leave Ghana without prior notification inwriting, signe... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. A. S. K. Bagbin | Mr. Speaker, I think the understanding of the article, bymy hon. Colleague opposite, is negatingthis whole exercise of them reading it tothe House. Then what is the import of thenotification being read to the House?Because you need to notify Parliament forParliament to consider whether thisdeparture from the country is... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Papa Owusu-Ankomah | Mr. Speaker, I believe that article is clear andunambiguous, and with your permission,I beg to read the article to the House: The President shall not leave Ghana without prior notification inwriting, signed by him andaddressed to the Speaker ofParliament. Of course, Mr. Speaker, the notification is to be addressed to y... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Hackman Owusu-Agyemang | Mr. Speaker, I think that we should not setprecedents in this House which by allintents and purposes are not in the spiritor the intentions of the framers of theConstitution. Mr. Speaker, we have beenin this House, some of us, for more than adecade. There has never been anoccasion when a notification from thepresidency... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | Hon. Member, the hon. Minority Leader is standing. I do not knowwhether he has any point of order. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Bagbin | On point a of order, Mr. Speaker. And the point of order is that mygood Friend, hon. Hackman is misleadingthe House. Between and , infact, specifically /1998, mypredecessor, hon. J.H. Mensah raised, ona number of times, this issue ofnotification to the House. It is not truethat it has never been raised. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | Hon. Member, please, is this a point of order? |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Bagbin | Yes, Mr. Speaker. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | Please, I would want to find out whether what you are saying isan infringement of our Standing Orders,or what is it? |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Bagbin | Yes, if you go through the issue of point of orders, Mr. Speaker,you will see that if a Member is misleadingthe House, or if a Member is misinformingthe House, a Member is entitled to raise apoint of order on that and correct thatmisinformation; and that is exactly what Iam doing. He said that the issue of notification... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | All right, thank you. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Owusu-Agyemang | Mr. Speaker, I believe the hon. Minority Leader'sintervention is completely misplaced.What I did say was the fact that it hasnever been the subject of debate for usto take a decision on it. He made a pointand it is very critical. The hon. Memberfor Nadowli North did say, and I quote: So that the House will grant permis... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Bagbin | Again, on a point of order. Mr. Speaker, I never, in my submissions,made any mention of Parliament grantingpermission to His Excellency the Presidentto travel. Never! It was in the submissionsof the hon. Attorney-General, andMinister for Justice which referred to that,that there is no intention of Parliamentgranting pe... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | Hon. Members, if I may be heard. Article of the Constitutionmakes it quite clear that the President shallnot leave Ghana without prior notificationin writing, signed by him and addressedto the Speaker. This letter from thePresident was written on the th ofJanuary before he left Ghana on the9th of January , and this was... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | The next item is correction of Votes and Proceedings. Ifyou have any corrections or omissions,will you kindly bring it to the attention ofthe Clerk to Parliament. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. John Tia | Mr. Speaker, on page , item , The Clerk to Parliament declared the results of the secret ballot as follows: In favour of Mr. Peter Ala Adjetey In favour of Mr. Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes . Mr. Speaker, what is missing is my objection to the results which weredeclared by the Clerk, because I objectedto the figures [I... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | Order! Order! |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Tia | I objected to the figures as follows: That in favour of Mr. Peter AlaAdjetey we recorded ; and in favour Mr.Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes, that is,your honourable self, ; and I said Iwanted this to be on record, but it hasbeen omitted in the Votes andProceedings . So I am just drawingattention to it. the President46 |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Capt. Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey (rtd. | Mr. Speaker, with all due respect, I thinkwhat my hon. Friend is doing is mostimproper. I was here; he stood up to talkand the Clerk to Parliament who wasacting as Chairman ruled him out of order,so whatever he said should not even gointo the Hansard ; it should not go intothe records at all. And now he is trying tosmu... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | Hon. Member, my view is that one or two of the words appear tobe rather too strong smuggling. Ithink you will withdraw that. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Tia | Mr. Speaker, accordingly, I demand of my hon. Colleague to withdrawthat word. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | I have already said that. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Dr. Benjamin Kunbuor | Mr. Speaker, we do not have your ruling on this matter.I think the hon. Member actually misledthe House. If the Clerk, as Chairman then,overruled him on a point of order, he didnot say factually that the point that wasmade by hon. John Tia was incorrect. Thetwo are different; one is substantive, theother is procedural.... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | Hon. Member for Assin North, is it a point of order you are raising? |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. K. O. Agyapong | Yes, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Member said that he wanted itto be on record but it is not on record. He Votes and Proceedings [MR. OWUSU-ADJAPONG] did not object; objection and recordare two different things. And in that sensehe cannot say that because he wanted itto be on record, that there was an extraballot he objected ... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Tia | Mr. Speaker, on a point of order. Mr. Speaker, I want to tell my hon.Colleague opposite that the reason why Iinsisted on the figures being written downwas exactly because I objected to whatthe Clerk was declaring. I objected to itand that is why I insisted that the recordsmust reflect what happened at thecounting. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu | Mr. Speaker, exactly what my hon. Colleaguesaid is what is being recaptured by thehon. Member for Assin North. When herose up that day, he said he wanted whathe was stating to be in the records. Mr.Speaker, that did not amount to objection.Mr. Speaker, we have gone beyond page1; you have signalled that we addresspage ,... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | Hon. Members, we have generated a lot of heat; would you pleaselet us go on. TheOfficial Reportis not available and we may skip it. By the Majority Leader i. Formula for the composition ofmembership of Committees,Parliamentary delegations andother Parliamentary groups andassociations. ii. Report of the Leadership on th... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Felix Owusu-Adjapong | Mr. Speaker, I beg to move, that notwithstanding the provisions ofStanding Order (1) which require thatno motion shall be debated until at leastforty-eight hours have elapsed betweenthe date on which notice of the motion isgiven and the date on which the motion ismoved, the motion for the adoption of theformula for the... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. A. S. K. Bagbin | Mr. Speaker, I beg to second the motion. Question put and motion agreed to. Resolved accordingly. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Owusu-Adjapong | Mr. Speaker, I beg to move, that this honourable Houseadopts the formula for the composition ofmembership of committees, parliamentarydelegations and other parliamentarygroups and associations. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order (1), the Leadership of the Housemet to consider the ratios for thecomposition of the m... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Bagbin | Mr. Speaker, I beg to second the motion. Mr. Speaker, theLeadership together worked on thisformula and has agreed on the principlesenunciated in the report which is beingpresented to the House. The only addition I have is that we insisted that our hon. Colleagues from thePeople's National Convention (PNC),Convention Pe... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. E. K. D. Adjaho | Mr. Speaker, as indicated by the hon.Minority Leader and indeed, as the reportspeaks for itself, this is a report of theLeadership of this House. We have somereservations and we thought that itshould be put on record. Mr. Speaker, we support the report but if you look at the report before us,Standing Order (1) has been... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu—NPP — Suame | Mr. Speaker, indeed, what myhon. Colleague, the hon. Member forAvenor/Ave (Mr. E. K. D. Adjaho) issaying reflects the letter of the StandingOrders. But indeed, ever since we enteredthis House we have gone by the spirit ofthis provision such that delegations andother related groups in this House are socomposed. There is... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. John A. Tia | Mr. Speaker, as indicated by the DeputyMinority Leader, my only apprehensionabout this Report is that when you readparagraph , line , it states as followsand Mr. Speaker, with your permission, Iquote: Majority and Minority caucuses shall apply in the composition of thecommittees, delegations and otherrelated groups. Wh... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. J. D. Mahama | Mr. Speaker, I support the pointmade by the Minority Leader that thesmaller groups in Parliament, like theConvention People's Party (CPP), People'sNational Convention (PNC) and theIndependent candidate put in writing thefact that they want to be considered aspart of the Majority. Mr. Speaker, the PNChas always canvasse... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | Order! |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Moses Dani Baah | On a point of order. Mr. Speaker, I am the hon. Memberof Parliament for Sissala East and also aPNC member. I do not know where my hon.Colleague who just spoke is coming from.I say so because the PNC has never |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | Hon. Members, we are really debating this motion item and so please let us not bring in othermatters which are not connectedtherewith. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Mahama | On a point of order. Mr. Speaker, if my hon. Colleague had justwaited for me to make my point What I was saying was that this is not the first time this matter has arisen. It Membership of the [MR. MAHAMA] arose in the last Parliament, and the PNChas always canvassed the position that itthought that the position of the... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. David Apasera | Mr. Speaker, I think my hon. Friend opposite who raised theissue as to whether PNC actually madesome sitting arrangements for itsMembers of Parliament that was truein the last Parliament. But thatnotwithstanding, the PNC group in thisParliament now have decided that forpurposes of business in the House, wewill collabor... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Dr. Benjamin Kunbuor | Mr. Speaker, I want torevisit this issue on the composition ofcommittees and delegations and otherrelated groups. If we see the generalclause on other related groups, and if thatmust take its colour from committees, it isactually my suggestion that why do wenot delete delegations and other relatedgroups and leave it at... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Felix Owusu-Adjapong | Mr. Speaker, I beg to move, that notwithstanding the provisions ofStanding Order (1) which require thatno motion shall be debated until at leastforty-eight hours have elapsed betweenthe date on which notice of the motion isgiven and the date on which the motion ismoved, the motion for the adoption of theReport of the L... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. A. S. K. Bagbin | Mr. Speaker, I beg to second the motion. Question put and motion agreed to. Resolved accordingly. Adoption of the Report of the Leadership on the Membership of theCommittee of Selection |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Owusu-Adjapong | Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order (1) and(2), I beg to move, that this honourableHouse adopts the Report of theLeadership on the membership of the Membership of the [MR. OWUSU-ADJAPONG] Committee of Selection, for this Session of Parliament. Mr. Speaker, the respective strengths of the Majority and Minority caucu... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. A. S. K. Bagbin | Mr. Speaker, in seconding the motion, I just want toassure the House that Leadership tookinto consideration the composition of theHouse itself and we made sure that theCommittee as composed reflected thedifferent shades of opinion in the Houseand therefore we have all parties beingrepresented in the Committee of Select... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Speaker | Hon. Members, the Committee would meet immediately afterthis Sitting. |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Owusu-Adjapong | Mr. Speaker, there are three important committees thatwe may need to work on as quickly aspossible in order that business of theHouse can move. These include theBusiness Committee and the Appointments Committee. I therefore urge that the members of the Committee of Selection do complywith the directive that we should b... |
GhanaParliament_11-01-2005 | 11-01-2005 | Mr. Bagbin | Mr. Speaker, I beg to second the motion. The House was accordingly adjourned at a.m. till thJanuary,2005 at a.m. Membership of the [MR. OWUSU-ADJAPONG] |
GhanaParliament_12-01-2005 | 12-01-2005 | Speaker | Hon. Members, we shall take item on the Order Paper Correction of Votes and Proceedings andthe Official Report. [The Votes and Proceedings and the Official Report were corrected.] a.m. |
GhanaParliament_12-01-2005 | 12-01-2005 | Speaker | Item , Laying of Papers. Hon. Members, since the Speaker is theChairman of the Committee of Selection, Ikindly call upon the Majority Leader ofthe House to lay the Papers for us. By the Majority Leader (Mr. F. K Owusu-Adjapong) Report of the Committee of Selection on the membership of theAppointments Committee and theB... |
GhanaParliament_12-01-2005 | 12-01-2005 | Speaker | Item , motions. May I again call upon the hon. Majority Leaderof the House to move the motion. MOTIONS Suspension of Standing Order (1) |
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RooseDebates: English Political Debates Corpus
PoliticalDebatesCorpus-EN is a large-scale English corpus of political debate and speech transcripts, assembled for domain-specific language model pre-training. It is the training corpus behind RooseBERT, a language model tailored to the dialogic and argumentative nature of political debates. The corpus brings together televised presidential debates and parliamentary debates from multiple countries and international bodies, totalling ~11 GB of text and spanning the period 1946–2025.
Dataset Summary
- Total size: ~11 GB of cleaned English text
- Time span: 1946–2025
- Domain: Political debates, parliamentary sessions, presidential debates, UN debates
- Languages: English
- Source types: Televised exchanges, parliamentary debates, primary/general election debates
- Intended use: Pre-training and fine-tuning of language models for political discourse analysis
All sources originate from authoritative speakers and official political settings, where political decisions are discussed, contested, and communicated to the public.
Supported Tasks
The corpus was designed to support domain-adaptive pre-training for downstream tasks including:
- Stance detection (support / oppose toward a target)
- Sentiment analysis of debate speeches
- Argument component detection and classification (claims vs. premises)
- Argument relation prediction and classification (support / attack / no-relation)
- Motion policy classification
- Named entity recognition (NER)
Data Sources
The corpus combines existing curated collections with transcripts scraped from official debate websites. Each source was pre-processed to remove hyperlinks and markup tags and to collapse multiple spaces.
| Source | Coverage | Period | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| African Parliamentary Debates (HOME Project) | Ghana & South Africa | 1999–2024 | 573 MB |
| Australian Parliamentary Debates | Australia | 1998–2025 | 1 GB |
| Canadian Parliamentary Debates (OpenParliament) | Canada | 1994–2025 | 1.1 GB |
| European Parliamentary Debates (EUSpeech) | EU leaders & institutions | 2007–2015 | 110 MB |
| Irish Parliamentary Debates (ParlEE + Dáil Éireann DB) | Ireland | 1919–2019 | ~3.4 GB |
| New Zealand Parliamentary Debates (ParlSpeech) | New Zealand | 1987–2019 | 791 MB |
| Scottish Parliamentary Debates (ParlScot) | Scotland | until 2021 | 443 MB |
| UK Parliamentary Debates (House of Commons) | United Kingdom | 1979–2019 | 2.6 GB |
| UN General Debate Corpus (UNGDC) | UN General Assembly | 1946–2023 | 186 MB |
| UN Security Council Debates (UNSC) | UN Security Council | 1992–2023 | 387 MB |
| United States Debates (American Presidency Project) | United States | 1960–2024 | 16 MB |
Pre-processing
Each dataset was cleaned with a uniform pipeline:
- Removal of hyperlinks and markup tags
- Collapsing of multiple consecutive whitespace characters
- Merging of per-source splits into a unified corpus with balanced representation across sources
Intended Uses & Limitations
Intended uses. Pre-training or continued pre-training of encoder-based language models for political discourse analysis; fine-tuning on stance, sentiment, argument mining, and policy classification tasks.
Limitations.
- The corpus is English-only and skewed toward Commonwealth and U.S./UN sources, so geographic and linguistic coverage is uneven.
- Transcripts reflect the political opinions and rhetoric of the speakers; the corpus is not a neutral source and may contain biased, adversarial, or offensive language.
- Time coverage varies by source, which may introduce period-specific framing effects.
- Models trained on this data should not be treated as authoritative on factual political claims.
Licensing
This corpus aggregates multiple underlying datasets, each released under its own terms by its original authors. Users must review and comply with the license of each constituent source before redistribution or commercial use. The aggregation and accompanying card are released under CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0; this does not override the licenses of the individual sources.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite us:
@article{dore2025roosebert,
title={RooseBERT: A New Deal For Political Language Modelling},
author={Dore, Deborah and Cabrio, Elena and Villata, Serena},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.03250},
year={2025}
}
Please also cite the original sources of the constituent datasets where appropriate (see the Data Sources table and the references in the paper).
Contact
Deborah Dore - deborah.dore@cnrs.fr
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