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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Chair of the Committee on Delegated Legislation, specifically the membership.If you look at most of the regulations that are brought to this House, in most cases, they speak to issues that are very important to the running of the various sectors of this country. One thing that has surprised many Members of this House is that many officers will always try to develop regulations that are completely out of touch with reality. Let me point out that, as a requirement, there is need for public participation in developing any regulation. The Universities Regulations, 2023, which the Committee seeks to annul, did not even come to the Departmental Committee on Education as part of public participation, inputting and discussions. There is a lot of impunity on the part of the Ministry and, more so, the State Department. They know very well that the Members of the Departmental Committee on Education and the members of the education fraternity have to speak about every aspect of regulation because it is very important that these regulations are discussed by the public, by the various stakeholders, and even the Committee on Delegated Legislation. If you look at the regulations, you will find that some things that were passed in the Presidential Working Party are supposed to be aligned because these regulations are alive to those issues. But you will realise that the regulations are so stale that they do not speak about the issues of the Presidential Working Party. A number of issues that the Universities Regulations 2023 are speaking to have actually been overtaken by events. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Chairman of the Committee on Delegated Legislation did it very well. I commend and ask him that every other Committee and, more so, the departmental committees, should speak to every regulation in future. The regulations on transport, maritime The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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