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    "id": 1104165,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to raise my voice on this very important Bill. At the outset, I support the Bill but with some reservations just like all the other Members who spoke before me have said. We will have time at the Committee of the whole House to interrogate this Bill further and possibly bring in amendments. I want to agree with the Members who have spoken that there is a need to actually separate food from drugs. This is a very fundamental and key Bill. Apart from regulating the medicines, pharmaceutical practices, food, drugs, scheduled substances, cosmetic, blood, medical devices and many other things, this Bill is seeking to repeal the entire Pharmacy and Poisons Board Act. It is also seeking to repeal the Food, Drugs and Scheduled Substance Act and it is also seeking to repeal the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. So, it is a very key. However, allow me to raise concerns. The entire leadership of the Departmental Committee on Health is not in this House as we are discussing this Bill. The Chairperson is not here. The Vice Chairperson is not here. That is why I had raised concerns earlier on, that this Bill needed to be treated differently. We are concerned because even the Report was not given to us. So, in the Committee of the whole House, we want the Committee to take the lead so that the amendments we are going to propose to this Bill…"
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