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    "id": 519567,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon Temporary Deputy Chairman. To give clarification, the initial thought of the Mover was to set up a body corporate with a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who would run the Council. We felt after long consultations with all the stakeholders that the Council needs to be a body that gives policy direction. The secretariat of that Council must be domicile in the Ministry responsible for climate change. Therefore, we are forming a secretariat with a director employed under the public service, who is going to be the person responsible for the day to day issues. That means that the Council will not be a body corporate. Because of the restructuring of the entire process there was no need for this Council to remain a body corporate. The issue was, if we made it a body corporate we would have established another parastatal, yet the Jubilee Government has been working towards reducing them by amalgamating the existing ones. To deal with that, we made it part of a secretariat of a Ministry, rather than having a new parastatal set up."
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