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    "id": 1143436,
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    "speaker_name": "Saku, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Rasso,",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dido Ali Raso",
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    "content": "important it is, that as we bring this Bill before the House we must look at how much public participation has taken place and what we mean by public participation In this particular omnibus Bill, public participation involves the public who are consumers and the stakeholders who are the main players in the health arena. My colleagues who have spoken before me were very clear that we enacted the National Health Insurance Fund hardly a month ago and we now suddenly have an omnibus amendment that is suggesting a particular change. I am not sure whether those who have moved the amendment have looked at the exact Bill which was recently signed into an act of Parliament. Hon. Speaker, as Bills come before the Committees of the National Assembly, they are scrutinised. I am certain that if there are major changes or the Committee proposes rafts of amendments to what has been brought before the House, then maybe that Bill was not properly crafted from the beginning. We must be careful and to actually ask ourselves whether it is necessary to return the Bill to the originators so that they look through it as opposed to the Committee appearing to be making the Bill themselves. Hon. Speaker, at this point in time in the life of the 12th Parliament, there are certain laws that can easily be enacted without the participation of most of us. If these particular laws sneak through the House, in the long run, they will have far reaching ramification on institutions and on the way those particular laws can be objectively implemented. The implementers might find it very difficult and end up blaming the National Assembly for crafting or coming up with bad laws that are difficult to implement. For these and other reasons, I would like to congratulate the Leader of the Majority Party, who is now a permanent feature in this House. Some Committee Chairs have taken flight so that certain laws take a longer time to be enacted as opposed to rushing them through the House. Hon. Speaker, with those remarks, I thank you and beg to support."
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