{"id":284691,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/284691/?format=json","text_counter":198,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Deputy Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Order, hon. Assistant Minister! We have had a system up until now up to the promulgation of the Constitution in 2010 in which the Legislature and the Executive reside in the same House in which a Member of Parliament also is a Cabinet Minister. Clearly, if we are going to have a system in which any Member of Parliament who prosecuted or rather scrutinized any issue in any Ministry while a Backbencher, when he becomes a Minister he will say that: “I cannot deal with these things because I had an opportunity to come across the same when I was in a committee as a Backbencher”, then very little business will be transacted on the Floor of this House. So, I do not think that you are in any way infringing on any provision of the Standing Orders by standing up again as a Minister and taking a position on this in your capacity as an Assistant Minister for Finance."}