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    "id": 787264,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/787264/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Washiali",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 151,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
        "slug": "benjamin-washiali"
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    "content": "With your permission, Hon. Deputy Speaker, I would like to appeal to my brother, Hon. Mugambi. Whenever a committee, like the Departmental Committee on Health, has been sitting for some time and receiving witnesses, and he has issues like the ones he is raising, he should join the Committee during its deliberations and raise the issues at that point so that he can have them included. He is proposing the formation of a taskforce. I want to encourage Members that when a report is written by a committee, and we know they spend a lot of time going through it, they should not propose amendments after many Members have debated it. Debate on this Report did not start today but last week. If we were to look at such amendments, as a House, I would have requested or wished to see them proposed at the beginning of debate, so that as Members debate the report, they include the proposals made in the amendments. I also see an element of a money Bill. If a taskforce has to be recommended or approved by this House, there is an aspect of money and we would have wished to treat this as other money Bills, which may not qualify until we refer them to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. In as much as I respect my brothers, the Mover and the Seconder, I wish to oppose the amendments."
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