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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to add my voice to this matter. I disagree with the idea that we should pigeon on the work of various Committees. That is because from the manner in which the law and the Standing Orders of this House are made - and I wanted to ask my colleagues to think about it very seriously – it is such that Committees will always interface in their work. There will always be overlapping of functions. I can give an example. If you took for instance, at the Committee on Delegated Legislation, the delegated legislation which that Committee is to deal with, under the Standing Orders, comes from the various sectors and departments of Governments. If we said all matters arising from Government departments are left within the ambit of Departmental Committees, then you will be saying that such a Committee, despite its useful function, does not need to exist. That is because it exists for a reason. It is there to deal with specific issues. Look at the Budget and Appropriations Committee and Finance, Planning and Trade, I want to ask hon. colleagues to be very circumspect when dealing with this matter. We have both Committees dealing with overall budgeting, but we have various Departmental Committees also bringing on board issues of budget relating to the various sectors and departments falling within their Committees. The day we will say we leave everything to the Budget and Appropriations, how for instance, will the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee express itself to the Budget and Finance Committees and later to the House the need to consider specific and particular issues of development of budget affecting the Judiciary or, indeed, those sectors within the justice and law sector? We have PIC and PAC. Those are oversight Committees. Whether we like it or not, it is not oversight in a vacuum. It is oversight of the various sectors and departments of Governments. The day we will say that those Committees will not go into some departments because they are Departmental Committees is the day we will be saying that those Committees have no purpose for existence. As I end, there is fear that Committees may come to different findings. To me, I see a higher calling when, as a Committee, you sit down, inquire into and make a report The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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