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    "id": 1348385,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I beg to move: THAT, Clause 31 of the Bill be amended- (a) by deleting subclause (1) and substituting therefor the following new subclause- (1) Every public officer shall submit to their responsible Commission a declaration of his or her income, assets and liabilities. (b) in subclause (4) by deleting paragraph (c); We have set out what is to be done. The rationale is to limit the clause to the affairs of a public officer and their dependent children only, not spouses, wives or anybody else. We also have to maintain the existing model of declarations to entities that directly supervise the conduct and ethics of the various categories of public officers, as the EACC lacks sufficient capacity to process the declarations of all public officers. This was a responsibility that the Act was giving to EACC alone. Now, we are devolving this to the reporting agencies as we do today so that, as Parliament, we can do it here at the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) while other people go to what we have done in the next proposed amendments. That way, EACC can handle the little work that goes into it. Otherwise, it does not have the capacity."
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