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    "id": 1081724,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " It would be good if he was listening because he is the one we will be expected to reply. When you look at the Report, the Committee identifies a heavy contribution by the Ministry of Health. One of the proposals to be included in the Bill was an amendment to bar the sale of blood products. However, when I look at the amendments that the Committee picked, I do not see that critical proposal. I would like to urge the Committee to relook at the stakeholder recommendations that were brought in. When you look at the Report, it does not say why a certain amendment has been rejected, which is the standard in committee reports. Committees discuss the recommendations and pick what is necessary and leave out what is not. So, there are some recommendations from the stakeholders that are very good, but then the Committee, in its summary, has only picked a few and left out some of the fundamental ones. I would like to encourage the Committee, because this is your own Report on your Bill, to go back to it before we come to the Third Reading and reconcile some of the issues that they identified as a hitch in their own moving, for example, selling of blood. When we come to the Bill and on the Committee amendments, that issue has not been addressed yet the Ministry of Health had brought that as part of the amendments that the Committee should consider. This basically involves all the other amendments that were brought by the stakeholders. They are not many. Just about five stakeholders appeared during public participation. We all have to go through all of them. I would just like to ask the Committee to reconsider its own Report. There are very good recommendations therein that should be captured in the Third Reading to enrich the Bill, so that we are not just creating a body for the purpose of transforming the Blood Transfusion Service from a Government department to a body corporate and then they continue with business as usual. This is unfortunate as it is what we have been seeing with most parastatals that have been created. We need to make a fundamental shift in line with the post COVID-19 recovery which is coming out with ‘building back better’. 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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