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    "id": 1062729,
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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": "Members may argue that we usually use the May recess for purposes of public participation on Budget and Appropriations Committee and other departmental committees. However, if you remember, even last year, we could not do the in-person public participation because of COVID- 19. We had to do it online. We will be making specific arrangements for committees to do the meetings online, interact with the MDAs that they oversee and also for the Budget and Appropriations Committee to do whatever they do when we come back to process the Budget. You do remember the Budget is supposed to be tabled before the House on 30th of April. Therefore, we will only be coming back a month after that anyway. Regardless of what happens we also know that we have another major matter which some of us have a great passion in. It is the constitutional amendment Bill that is sponsored by the Building Bridges Initiative. We know the Committee is in the process of meeting. Just to bring the House up to speed, even the sessions of this weekend had to be stopped or suspended because some Members of the joint committee are in isolation and hence you could not be sure to what extent you are actually exposing the rest of the members without having to really sort out issues. If some Members in the committee have already turned positive and are in isolation, it does not make sense to continue having meetings and expose more members of the committee. We have to be more responsible than just wanting to complete a report. However, the committee will do what they have to do. What 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."
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