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    "id": 916175,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/916175/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ijara, PDR",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sophia Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": "I understood that we have an oversight role and we oversee majority of the resources that are approved by this House. Being a budget-making House, we are blessed. We, as a House, have a responsibility to oversee those resources. We have been talking and pleading with the Budget and Appropriations Committee to give us more resources. They have listened to our cry and agreed that we do not have enough resources to go out and do our oversight role properly. Putting a vote head in the Budget to cater for our oversight role is very important for this House. We must listen to each other, Members. Putting that vote head and planning to move an amendment is a great issue. We must learn the Budget-making cycle. If we, as a House, do not understand it, then we are doomed because that is one of our responsibilities. We must familiarise ourselves with the process that we go through. I want to thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee and its leadership for introducing this vote head at this very late hour because it is very important to us. If we stand here and we do not know the Budget cycle, then we better resign and go home because we do not have any responsibility to do in this House as Members of this House."
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