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    "id": 1057743,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Peter Kaluma (",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, you have spoken about public participation, and I am happy. It is like you were seeing my thoughts. Parliaments all over the world transact their businesses under their internal procedures. Those internal procedures are in the form of Standing Orders, which have anchorage in the Constitution in our case. We are told you will regulate your procedures; you will provide in the Standing Orders how you do things. What if, as has been happening, you go for public participation somewhere and people ask you for bus fare? This is something all Committee Members experience as they go for public participation out there. Members of the public ask for bus fare, water and food. What value do people gathered in a room during public participation forums add to a legislative proposal or to a public issue you are investigating out there? That is why you are right. If we are to come up with a law on public participation, it must find its space within the Standing Orders so that we can prescribe it. It should not be a stand-alone piece of legislation. We should remember that the legislative process goes beyond the House. If we make a public participation law, it will have to get presidential assent. What if it is sent back with proposals which tie our hands completely? What will we do? Let us go to our Standing Orders because that is what our Constitution says."
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