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"speaker_name": "South Mugirango, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Osoro",
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. Our responsibilities, as a bicameral Parliament, are enshrined in the Constitution under Articles 95 and 96 – that is oversight, legislation and representation. I agree with all the sentiments made by my colleagues as far as the small House of the Senate is concerned. The Senate is actually a small House. Their roles are very minor. They are very petty, and everything they do just shows that it is the lower House. While I agree with my colleagues, we have a challenge on procedure. The Estimates, as they appear, were approved by the Speaker. Therefore, it means that the only thing we can amend here are the proposed amendments by either the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriation Committee or any other Member. Those amendments have already been approved by the Speaker. So, we have a technical challenge. We really do not need the Senate to have allocation of oversight funds. However, we cannot do that at this stage because there is no 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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