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    "id": 1343096,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. Hon. T.J. Kajwang' has raised some issues about amendments, that there are amendments which might not have undergone public participation. You know that amendments are brought to this House by Members who have not participated in public participation and yet, those amendments are prosecuted. When we take the Bill for public participation, it is not just one amendment. We take it for the whole Bill. So, the entire Bill undergoes public participation. Once the Report is tabled in the House, what that means is that it becomes a document of the House so that Members can look at what was received from the public participation and see what amendments they can prosecute. I have seen Hon. Makalu has made some amendments which he has picked from the Report of the Committee. Some of those amendments that Hon. Nyikal might be talking about are not lost. The House will still pronounce itself on them. It also means that when we table a report in the House, the House can debate that report or any amendments in it and accept or reject it. It does not mean the House will support everything the Committee has decided. Even those amendments we proposed as a Committee, the House has a right to reject or accept them. It does not mean that the House will accept wholly all amendments by the Committee. In any case, Hon. Nyikal is a member of the Departmental Committee on Health. He is free to propose any amendments that may have been left out in this document. Hon. Temporary Chairman, I urge that we proceed by prosecuting the Committee of the whole House. Members can speak to specific amendments as we put them before them."
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