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    "id": 304328,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "The rationale for the reduction of the publication period is, like I said during my earlier statement, to facilitate these Bills to find their way formally to the Committee because a Committee of Parliament will not have received this until another two weeks and we believe there is urgency in receiving these Bills. We have already scheduled a meeting to start discussing this and the earlier we can give them to the Committee the better for all of us. We have anticipated that these Bills would have been published last Tuesday which would then have given more time. However, as fate would have it, the Head of State was out of the country on an external visit and also the consultations with the Commission on the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) were taking place on Monday and Tuesday. It was only on Friday that we were able to clear this within the Cabinet. They were published over the weekend but they were dated Monday. So, it is a very procedural matter and we would wish to ask the House that we grant this exemption so that the Committee can start its work and produce a report that will then help us all in debating this matter and move forward."
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