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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise on a point of order. Just like my colleagues who have spoken, I sit in the Budget Committee and I feel very betrayed sitting here to talk about this matter. We were supposed to have a meeting this morning. That is why I came to this House early this morning so that we could solve the pending issues. We have structures and systems in place and yet, we do not follow them. If we set out to undermine the Budget Committee of this House, it is going to be bad and it will reflect very wrongly on us. The Commission on Revenue Allocation is a constitutional Commission. It gave recommendations. We were supposed to sit together; that is, the Minister and ourselves so that we could solve this problem. Devolved system of governance is what we have looked for, for all these years and, therefore, we cannot allow a Minister to singlehandedly hijack and undermine the devolution process. We cannot touch these Bills until they go through the right procedure. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, would I be in order to ask you to ask the Minister to take back these Bills, appear before the Budget Committee and sit even right now? We are prepared as a Committee to sit even past midnight. The other time, we left this place past midnight. We are ready. Let him take back these Bills and bring them to the Committee so that we can solve this matter."
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