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    "id": 1560031,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": "We are now establishing this council, whose main function will be to plan on issues relating to population. As stated, it is a straightforward Bill. After forming and determining the functions and responsibilities of that entity, we will set up the council. It will be governed by a board of directors consisting of several members, who will be appointed as set out in the Act. The Bill also elaborates on the functions of the board, which is the day-to-day running of the council, so that relevant reports are made and presented. This council will also advise us on the periodical census we have to do every 10 years. One is looming because the last one we had was highly discredited purely because we did not have a policy to govern how it should be done. We hope this is the solution to that problem. We also hope that counties will not dispute their population figures, with some claiming they are deflated and others saying they are inflated. We have the financial provisions purely in accordance with our Constitution. This is the House that allocates and appropriates money. So, we will appropriate money to that council once it is established. Once the monies are appropriated, the board will be responsible. We have made general provisions regarding the council, which make it an offence to act contrary to the Act. We also have a provision to make subsidiary legislation regarding the Act, which will be done by the cabinet secretary responsible for such matters. He or she will have to do this in consultation with the board, which is the governing body of the council. We have several schedules that must be read together with the Act after the transitional provisions, which is the format in which the laws are made. This is a straightforward Bill that we need to pass as a House. I support it and urge that, if there are any issues to be considered during the Third Reading, they should be highlighted quickly so that we can establish the council and start planning for our population census using an agency established by an Act of Parliament."
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