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    "id": 1492958,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": " Let us continue with the problems we have with the Senate. This House must be allowed to do its oversight role on the Executive, which is the National Government. There is no way committees can summon senior members of the Executive for the purposes of ensuring that the Government is running properly, only to be told that the same members have been summoned by the Senate. We need a clarification as regards the constitutional roles of the Senate and the National Assembly. The Senate must always know that its role is limited to matters relating to county governments. There is a lot to do there. They cannot say that there is so little to do in county governments. Therefore, they have to poke their noses into what the national Government does. Sometimes, they try to say that the roles are cross-cutting. We now need this to be clarified. There is no cross-cutting role between the national Government and county governments and so, the Senate can now find itself delving into matters of the national Government. The request is timely. Kindly make a ruling, so that we all know that we need to meet the Executive when the time comes without any deviation from the Senate. Thank you very much."
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