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    "id": 429886,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, if you look at Standing Order No.205 on PAC, you will find that this Committee’s mandate is to do an examination of the accounts after they are tabled on the Floor of the House. Today, if you look at some of the issues the PAC is handling, you will term that as operational or day to day activities. I once said that there was an item that the PAC was dealing with which in my honest opinion should have been under the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. However, it was an operational matter. I think these things are real but again, if I go back because as much as you will give a communication--- I will start with the Public Investments Committee. It says that the PIC’s functions are, first, to deal with reports and accounts of public investment. Secondly, it is supposed to deal with anything arising out of the Auditor-General’s Report on investments portfolio while the PAC will deal with accounts. It further says that they are supposed to do an examination in the context of the efficiency of the public investment portfolio. That means that if there is an investment or a business going in a department of the Government today; and in the opinion of Parliament we feel that, that investment is not right or is not beneficial to the taxpayers then the PIC will have a say in that investment, which is a day to day activity."
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