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    "id": 36568,
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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": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I indicated yesterday, the Government is already taking action on the famine, and the Prime Minister has been very comprehensive in his Statement. The Government is already taking action in terms of the fulfillment of the conditions on the police reforms and there will be some legislation coming here. The Government is very conscious of what it needs to do to achieve the mandate that was given to it by the people when the elections took place. What Parliament can do is to review the programmes and make recommendations on, perhaps, where the Government should put more emphasis. But Parliament should never and it has never happened anywhere in the world, take on the role of now re-doing the Budget and deciding what the Government priorities are and then tell it: “You must spend the money as we have decided.” It has always been the mandate of the Government and Parliament approves on behalf of the people. The Government then comes and accounts for it, but never has it happened anywhere that the Government is told to re-allocate budgets---"
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