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    "id": 1079762,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": " I have been a member of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning now for 13 or 14 years and I have never seen the sort of effectiveness that we have now. Our previous Chairpersons sometimes kept us in the dark and even made deals a few minutes before the Bill was passed. I remember one case when the Betting Act came and as a Committee, we had agreed to go a certain way. For some reason which we leave to him and his conscious, the then Chairperson changed some of our decisions. The role of Parliament is clear with the Finance Bill. In the 10th Parliament, it was called the Finance and Planning Committee. It was then changed and finance was on one side and then the Budget and Appropriations Committee went the other way. It appears that we began to lose control and cede our powers and we were now under the capture of the National Treasury and the Government. As much as we appreciate that the Government has a role to play, we as the legislators, are the overseers. We have to control and make sure that our operations go the way they are meant to. 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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