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    "id": 1400273,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": "May I point out that with the recent amendments to the NG-CDF Act, Members of Parliament have no role to play in the NG-CDF anymore? That must be very clear to everybody. The Act removed our oversight role at the constituency level. Members of Parliament now have to come to this House to debate, adopt, or reject reports, similar to this one. We do not want to hear cases all over of Members of Parliament having misappropriated or mishandled the NG-CDF funds. The NG-CDF is now fully in the hands of the NG-CDF Board. We have the NG-CDF committees at the constituency level, The NG-CDF committees are supposed to deal with the disbursed monies and prepare reports. Those reports are audited by various entities that go to the constituencies, including the NG-CDF Board, the Auditor-General, and any other auditor who is supposed to check the accounts. After that, those reports are brought here, and Members of Parliament discuss them to see how their NG-CDF funds are used. The misnomer that the NG-CDF is under execution and implementation by this House is totally misplaced. We do not do that anymore. Therefore, nobody should go to court to challenge that the NG-CDF is in the hands of Members of Parliament because that is not true. Our work is to oversee the reports once they are brought here and leave it to the committees to receive the money, make the budgets which are approved by the Board, and execute those budgets at the end of the day. Even where matters are pending in court, this remains the position, which should be made very clear everywhere. With those remarks, I urge that we adopt this Report."
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