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    "id": 101450,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "In Article 19, I agree with the immediate former speaker on the Floor that this advisory committee is too heavy for the Government and is unlikely to be productive. In fact, the Mover has put in almost the whole Government. What you need in an advisory committee like this is the Ministry responsible for children, Immigration, Foreign Affairs, Security and the Attorney-General. The rest can be consulted and co-opted when there is need. You can clearly state in the Bill that as and when there is need, line Ministries can be co-opted. When you have an advisory committee with 14 people, you will have problems of quorum, to begin with. You will also have a problem of them agreeing on anything. You need a smaller effective committee that will be able to achieve its objective. Being largely a Government advisory committee, I would advice that--- Page 85 says that it is not true that the enactment of this Bill shall not occasion additional expenditure of public funds. It will. I think that it will be good, before we go to the Committee Stage to consult with the Treasury and see that the running of this advisory committee is not eventually left to the very criminals you are fighting because crime fights back. You will find a trafficker who looks benevolent and offers to contribute money to the fund and then compromise its integrity, undermine its effectiveness and defeat the very purpose for which the Bill was intended."
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