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    "id": 1513865,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matungulu, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mule",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I respect what you have said. I just want to urge the chairpersons and committees that when Members request for statements, we also push the ministries to give us answers, which somehow take a bit of time. Last year, I requested for a statement in the month of February 2023, and a shallow response came in, two weeks ago. The Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning had to send it back to the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning to give us another statement in January. We need to find a tracking model on how to ensure that the ministries respond to Members requests and statements in this House on time. If a response is being given one year down the line, what purpose would it serve? It is high time we tell the ministries that we must get our responses within a certain time frame, and not until the time whereby it would not even serve the purpose that it was intended to."
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