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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": " Everybody will have his or her opinion on this. If you look at this proposed amendment, we are making the law on boda boda and tuk tuk better than it is. Nobody is explaining why we have regulations on the same subject matter, which are not being enforced. This is because they are subsidiary legislation. Why do we not make substantive law? Once we make substantive law, this House and every other arm of the Government has the power to ask why the law is a dead letter law. I do not believe and I am not convinced that it would become dead letter law. We are doing a better job than we have. There is no conflict between what Hon. King’ara is doing and what the Committee on Delegated Legislation in the last Parliament did. This House is actually buttressing the issue of registration, control and policies on boda boda and tuk tuk into our substantive law. It is a very important industry. It goes without saying that in this country, 30 per cent of its GDP may be hinged in that sector. Having just recently lost a Member of Parliament through a boda boda accident, we are worried whether what we have in those regulations that are being quoted and what we have in the main Act is sufficient. I invite the House to relook at the proposed amendment. If there is need to amend whatever Hon. King’ara has proposed, let us do it in the Committee of the whole House. Let us not throw away the baby with the bath water. Let us not reject this proposed amendment while, if we sat in a Committee of the whole House, we would make the proposed amendments better. By so saying then, I find there is a place in the proposed 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 amendments in subsection 2(a) of the National Transport and Safety Authority Act. I, therefore, urge the House to support and I personally support the proposed amendments. Thank you."
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