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    "content": "If the intention was to appear and sign, then we can proceed with business. Further, as Hon. Members are aware, our current budgeting system is programme-based and budgetary allocations are guided by the nature of the activities performed within a programme. Consequently, basing the mandate of Committees on subject-matter certainly enhances the exercise of oversight by the House and ensures consistency. Hon. Members, reorganisation of the structure of the Executive should not continuously necessitate a variation of the mandate of the Committees of the House. Indeed, during the 11th Parliament, the International Trade function was moved from the then Ministry of East African Community and Regional Development to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Despite the move to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the State Department for International Trade was still subject to oversight by the then Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and not the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. Similarly, Hon. Members, you will recall that despite the reorganisation of the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender, all matters relating to the Youth and Gender, including the vetting of its Principal Secretary, continue to be considered by the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, as opposed to the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security which exercises oversight over all other affairs of the Ministry. Hon. Members, The experiences from the 11th Parliament would, ordinarily, apply to any reorganisation of the structure of the Executive. However, the concern raised by the Hon. Chairperson of the Committee on Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources presents a slightly unique scenario. Members will note that, before the reorganisation of the structure of the Executive in August 2019, the State Department for Irrigation was domiciled in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation with its own dedicated Principal Secretary. The Executive Order essentially merged the State Department for Irrigation with the State Department of Water and Sanitation in the new Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation under one Cabinet The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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