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    "id": 152206,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the House Business Committee (HBC) is essentially a Government body. It is the one that controls business; so, I am in order to say that there has been fast-tracking. Let me not be distracted! We want to send a clear message that if it is a single Bill, and it is negotiated with the Opposition Caucus, we will want to understand that. But where we have a bunch of statutes such as these being fast-tracked, it is dangerous and Parliament should never accept this to happen again. Having said that, there are, in fact, some very good provisions within here. There are also some which are very dangerous and some which were clearly hurried. For example, we have raised various points of order that the provision that the salaries for Constitutional Office holders are being adjusted upwards. There is a clear provision for a Vice-Chairman, for example, of the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) and this Office does not exist. In fact, I sit on the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) that has been asked by the IIEC to meet with them, so that some of these things could have been included in this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill if it was not rushed by the Government in the House. We would have brought in even the ones of the"
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