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    "id": 861778,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/861778/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13331,
        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "The issue of support staff in Parliament is becoming a big problem. We have inadequate members of staff to do research. Committees are now sharing legal staff. For example, we were unable to complete a Report in the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives today because the only legal staff who is allocated to us is allocated to three other committees. We were unable to move. We must give the PSC the powers and facilities to ensure that our members of staff do not get overworked and have adequate work to research, so that we enrich and improve the quality of the Bills and laws that we pass in this Parliament. It is important that as much as we make the laws, we need to be very careful that we do not victimise either some Members of Parliament or members of staff. We must make laws that entrench good governance, fairness, equity and ensure that all our members, be they Members of Parliament or members of staff, get what they deserve to get."
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