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    "id": 508450,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 382,
        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "(a) deleting the word “complaints Committee ” wherever it appears and substituting therefor the words “National Environmental Complaints Committee”. (b) inserting the following paragraph immediately after paragraph (b)─ “(ba) undertake public interest litigation on behalf of the citizens in environmental matters” Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the first one is a consequential amendment in terms of the renaming the “Public Complaints Committee” to the “National Environmental Complaints Committee” The second amendment is very substantive in that we are adding National Environmental Complaints Committee a function to undertake public interest litigation in environmental matters on behalf of the citizens. You can complain and National Environmental Complaints Committee says that you are right but then the person you complained about continues with whatever they were doing. However, because you do not have resources to take them to court, that matter ends there. So, we are giving this function to the National Environmental Complaints Committee to take it further and litigate on behalf of persons who cannot afford court fees."
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