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    "id": 1122889,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mogotio, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Tuitoek",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kamuren Tuitoek",
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    "content": "are talking about implementing the recommendations of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and not any more discussions or moving the goal posts. In spite of that, NEMA has let down the Committee because we rely on NEMA to give us the finer details and the exact figures. If they tell the Committee on Implementation that a compliance level of 80 per cent is good, is that water or air of good quality? I think this is where NEMA needs to be sanctioned. They need to be specific so that the Committee on Implementation can make a decision whether London Distillers met the required standards. It is not enough to say we are putting up a state of the art technology. What matters is after they have done that, what was the quality of the water and air? In this case, I can see they are still talking about giving these people six months to comply. They are saying the Ministry of Environment has been directed by the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. I think at this point it is the Committee on Implementation which should actually be directing now. I do not know what the Chair talks about because here they are referring yet again to the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and yet they had already done their proposal here in the House. The Speaker directed that the Committee on Implementation now carries out implementation of those proposals. So we cannot go back to them. This is an area which the Committee should have improved on so that we do not have a case where we are not very clear about what we should implement. Also, in future, we should not allow the establishment of any property, whether factories or anything, which does not comply with the regulations set by NEMA. We should not be guessing things. There is this guessing now that this one should have done that or this one is affecting me. From the beginning we should not have allowed any factory to operate without meeting the set standards. With that, I reluctantly support the Report."
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