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    "id": 1014364,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Report of the Committee on Implementation on the status of the various legislations, Motions, Petitions and Resolutions. I am happy that at last we can slot them in because we were being bashed that they were not working. However, we were probably guilty as a House Business Committee that we are giving you the time, but now at least, we have updated Members. The sad thing is that the Members being updated are not here. Tomorrow they will be asking us the same things about the status of their Bills. I am not even sure how many of them have read this Report. Anyway, that is how life is. When people have it, they do not want it, when they do not have it, they ask for it. I also commend the Committee for the work you have done. Just going to some of the findings that they have come up with, I think the one of the things is lack of legal frameworks to guide Government policies which they believe hampers the efficient implementation and operation of policies. Now, I will leave the issue of budgetary allocations because we in this House are the ones who do the budgetary allocations. I know it will always be a standard excuse that we did not have money to implement the policies. However, that should be factored in in the next financial year when the ministries or the MDAs should come and say: “We need so much money to implement certain things”. So lack of money should not be an excuse given to the committees, because ministries have a chance every year to prioritise what they need. If something is worth implementing, then they should prioritise it in the budget. Looking through the debate about the incomplete responses, I know this is a standard thing that committees will rush to do a report here, by the time they do a report, ministries come back later to respond. I have seen on some of the Bills that are in the process. Ministries would give a set of amendments, when the committee has finished, they bring another set or on miscellaneous which was published. Therefore, the ministries started coming back and saying: “We do not want this or that published”. Until I wonder why they brought it in the first place. So, there is that disconnect between what happens. However, the long and short of it all is that the one thing that we can control are these frameworks. I would like to ask the Chairman and his Committee to identify key legislation that we need to amend to create the missing frameworks. I have always said that our work as an oversight and Parliament is not to commend that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations takes action. He was going to do it anyway. His work is to identify the loopholes. As to where are, the legal loopholes that we need to seal so that a mistake is not repeated in future, is our work as Members. So, the individual committees have come up with resolutions. The COI is in the unique situation of looking on a bad side view and identifying some commonalities in the weaknesses that are forcing things not to be implemented. So, you can identify the overarching law that we need to amend so that we can force implementation and do not say that because there is lack of a proper legal framework, is impeding on implementation. The other thing that the Committee has identified is on Motions and legislations not being in tandem with some Government policies and hence, when the two of them are at cross purposes, the Ministry will always say that they cannot implement because it against their policy. I urge the Committee to simultaneously and ask how we can capture that upfront. I will look at it later because the committee also said that we find some of these resolutions and Motions being implementable. Since we all sit there when Motions are drafted and recommendations coming, I want to throw to the Committee that before the House pronounces itself, Members of the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}