{"id":303171,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/303171/?format=json","text_counter":47,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Deputy Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Assistant Minister, it is not adequate to say that you have written to your counterpart. Your counterpart definitely has a story to tell. So, it is your responsibility, as the Government, to go and consult and bring here a story; whether that story will be acceptable to the House or not is a different matter. But clearly, just to pass the buck and come and tell the House that you have written to the Treasury and this is the same Government-- In democracies, the Government has no business being the Government if it cannot be accountable to its own Legislative Assembly. What do you have to say, hon. Mwatela?"}