{"id":558509,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/558509/?format=json","text_counter":139,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":376,"legal_name":"Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona","slug":"millie-odhiambo-mabona"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank the Committee for bringing this Report. I want to indicate that this Committee is fairly new. For a long time, if you told somebody that you were going to that Committee; most Members were very hesitant because the Committee has often been seen as dead. So, to the extent that the Committee has given us this Report, I just want to congratulate them. I want to largely agree with you. Even as I was listening carefully to the Mover, I was of the view that there is a lot that we can do. We cannot come to the House helpless and indicate that a Cabinet Secretary has refused to give a report or is merely giving us a report that has no content or substance. This is the first Report that the Committee is giving, and I want to encourage the Committee. As I was listening to some of the issues that they were putting forth to 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."}