And Espat's filing should be a little lighter because after he got suspended from the House of Representatives, government stopped paying him as a representative. Today Espat's party leader told us it's wrong in principle because the people made him a representative, and government he says can't take that away:...
Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition
"The question we need to ask the Prime Minister, as a representative, you get paid to go to house meeting or you get paid to represent your people? Because if it only to go to a house meeting, we have about 3-4 house meetings a year and I certainly don't think that the people of this country would be happy to find out that you are being paid just to go to house meetings. I believe that we've been paid to be representatives 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and on leap year 366 days a year. So I want to put that on record, that we believe that it is wrong what they did and the Prime Minister needs to clarify that. Is he saying or is he suggesting that we are being paid to go to a house meeting or are we being paid to be a representative. Because no Speaker, no Prime Minister have the right to remove any of us as representatives of the people in the area that we represent."
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