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"content": "A 33 per cent reduction of a figure given or a colossal sum like that is clearly not a very simple matter. The question is: How was that arrived at in the first place? If it can be brought that low, why was that due diligence not done at the right time? That is the role of Parliament as a watchdog of the taxpayersâ money. Unless there was a direction given by the Chair on the same at the previous time, in the absence of that, the Chair would again direct thus: Let there be a Joint Committee of the Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and the Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing to look into that and report back to the House in three weeks. If it has been there doing the work, it should not have any problem. Do we have, by any chance, a Member of any of those Committees here now? The Clerkâs Department will convey the same to them. The Chair also appreciates the fact that the Minister was able to do what he did to bring down this thing, otherwise, this would not have been done by anybody including Parliament itself. So, it is actually a commendable job."
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