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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Finance",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion. As you can hear from my voice, hon. Members are even tired of seeing me here. I will start my contribution by drawing the attention of the House that our work is not limited to the House. Members of Parliament have a lot of work to do out there. We have our CDF. From the reports that I am looking at, I know what is happening. There is a lot of work on co-ordination that is required out there. We have just released some monies; some for the first tranche and some for the second tranche. Some committees are not moving. It is high time that we, as Members of Parliament, realised that we have a responsibility to make sure that those funds are moving out there. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have the youth issues. We have gazetted the rules to set up the youth funds. We need to go there and start mobilizing the youth to form those groups, so that they can start benefiting from the Fund. It is important that we take the leadership as leaders and Members of Parliament. We should not leave it to the aspirants who are out there mobilizing and confusing the people, while we are here in Parliament. I am sure that is something that we need to think about. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to Bills, part of the problem is that Committees do not have adequate time to do research on the Bills and sit with us to internalise them all. For example, the Money Laundering Bill that has been talked about here--- I need time with the Committee, so that we can go through the Bill and avoid the situation that we are seeing. 4304 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES December 7, 2006 You have been witnesses. A Bill comes here and it is met with, for example, 100 amendments."
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