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    "id": 1125940,
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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": " Yes, indeed. I empathise with the Member in terms of wanting to rely on the public participation report. We are elected to give guidance to the public, and not to be guided by the public. The public participation is to enrich the Bill and the Committee will report to us. The important thing is we recognise the importance of this Bill. This Bill has been generated from the Senate, which carried out extensive public participation. It has come here for us to get into it. I am aware that the Budget and Appropriations Committee has actually been consulting, and it has done the public participation and are in the process of bringing the report here. What we then decided to do, as the House Business Committee, is to save on the time. We only have three weeks. Instead of waiting for the report to come here and then start the debate next week and then we start the process of going back to the Senate and all that, we start the debate and between the debate and the Third Reading, we will have the benefit of that report here. So, we are basically doing this for convenience of time. We did this with the Waqf Bill, where we actually debated the Bill and waited for the Committee Report so that we then process it. There is precedence for doing this when the exigencies of the matter so demands. I just want to alert members that we only have three weeks until the recess. So, if we delay on technicalities, we could end up being caught in our timeline and then without this Bill, we will not be able to send those conditional grants to the counties, and they need that money. It was a matter of the court. Let us walk and chew gum simultaneously. What we are discussing is the Bill. The report will be tabled here. Members will have the opportunity of interacting with it as we bring in the amendments. It is a very straight forward Bill and so I am not expecting a lot of divergence on this matter."
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