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    "id": 560927,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other issue I would like to raise relates to weak financial positions. I am privileged to have been in the last Parliament where we created very many quasi parastatals. The moment a department is turned into a parastatal, it is left to stand on its own. For the first three years, because they are not prepared to manage that independence and legally functioning institution, they throw all the rules out of the window. If you visit them, they tell you that those are some of their teething problems, they were struggling and they are new, but that does not allow one to circumvent the due process of law. Therefore, before you even legislate the existence of a new entity, the institution concerned - whether it is the parent Ministry or any other Government agency - must have the audacity to pause and say, “I am in the process of creating this new creature”. Therefore, put in place all the requisite managerial, financial, technical and human resource facilities for that entity to take off and function properly. This has not been done. If you go back to the history of almost all the new organisations, you will find that they have had serious challenges in the first five years."
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