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    "content": "Secretary and, most significantly, one Principal Secretary. This implies that, all accounting matters fall under one accounting officer. Hon. Members, The question that this scenario poses with regard to oversight is the reporting line for this sole Principal Secretary in the new Ministry which is assigned functions that straddle the mandate of two Departmental Committees. At present, the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation is assigned the functions of— (1) Water and Sewerage Infrastructure Development (2) Water Resource Management (3) Water Storage and Flood Control (4) Land Reclamation, and (5) Water Harvesting for irrigation. Hon. Members, The Second Schedule to the Standing Orders outlines “Agriculture, livestock, irrigation, fisheries development, production and marketing” as the core mandate of the Agriculture and Livestock Committee. Conversely, the Schedule outlines “Matters relating to climate change, environment management and conservation, forestry, water resource management, wildlife, mining and natural resources, pollution and waste management” as the core mandate of the Environment and Natural Resources Committee. This effectively makes the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation answerable to the two Committees on the subjects of Irrigation, and Water and Sanitation, respectively. Ideally,"
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