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    "id": 23196,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbau",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Elias Peter Mbau",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would not like all of us to be included in a blanket of Members who belong to a very sad day. Today is a historic day when Parliament, through its relevant structures and through the Budget Committee, has had a chance to make amendments, reallocations and reductions of over- expenditures where Members of Parliament thought they were not properly prioritized. The same has been incorporated by the Executive. This is for the first time in history. I want to commend this House and all the stakeholders in the journey towards ensuring that Parliament becomes not a Budget approving institution but a Budget-making institution. It is important for us all to be able to know that at some point it is important to give and take. Sometimes, you get and sometimes you do not get. We are in a unique situation and we all need to understand. I want to urge my colleague, who is a Member of the Budget Committee to agree that we made 15 recommendations and nine of them were taken on board. We made several proposals---"
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