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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to join my colleagues in congratulating the Chair of the Liaison Committee. The Deputy Speaker did a tremendous job of having to deal with Committee Chairs who also have to present their views and to strike a balance. I have listened to many Members lamenting and complaining. In fact, Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo has ordered that we should not approve a BPS with money to the Senate, which I agree with totally. I further agree with him on the Affirmative Action Fund. I have now changed my mind because we have amended the CDF Act and now it is in line with the Constitution. However, people come to Parliament to make laws and not to get money to fuel vehicles to do the job they have been employed to do. Why should people be given other cars when all of us were given grants to buy vehicles? Much as Hon. Jakoyo is always on the opposite side with me, today he has really spoken the truth. However, there is an element that we really need to take responsibility for. In the Budget- making process, Parliament is, but a conveyor belt, not because anybody made us so. We passed a regulation brought by a Committee of this House which we thought should protect the independence and role of Parliament in the Budget-making process. The Committee on Delegated Legislation agreed that we cannot move more than 1 per cent of a Vote to another Vote. So, even if I want to agree with Hon. Jakoyo, my hands are tied by a regulation that was passed by this House. There are some things that we do assuming that we are helping the Government of the day, but what we are doing is destroying institutions. These regulations must be amended. We are not doing the Government of the day a service by not allowing us to change these votes. Let me give you an example. Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) are overexcited about new projects. They do not want to hear anything about a pending project. It means people have already taken their loot in the pending project. So, they need new projects. They are never 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."
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