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    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Lillian Gogo",
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        "legal_name": "Lilian Achieng Gogo",
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    "content": "committee that is going to work in line with the Departmental Committee on Health and other committees and sectors. I support this Motion because the ad hoc committee will be a focal point in response to COVID–19, especially on matters that concern this august House. Also, the Committee will be time-bound. I do not see why anyone should be scared of usurp of duties or duplication of roles. In any case, it will not be duplication of roles. It will be, being additive. There is work that has already been done, but more work can be done. I do not see why we should have any problem. The intention is to have this ad hoc committee up to the time we will have a working vaccine, and the health care system management and the health department determine that there is immunity. It is under such circumstances that this ad hoc committee can be dissolved. It is also necessary to consider if there will be need for legislation. If that need is to come from this House, it will be a money Bill. Money Bills can only be generated in the National Assembly. So, when one will desire to speak on it and we do not have an ad hoc committee in place to look into the nitty gritty of the legislation of the money Bill aspect, we will go wrong. I support this Motion and appreciate the need to have the ad hoc committee as a vehicle to monitor the usage of funds. There are funds that have been given out by the Government and I can tell you for free that, as much as we are supposed to oversee it, that is not being done properly. The adhoc committee, if constituted by Parliament, will look at the multi-sectoral systems that are already existing outside there, especially on matters oversight as we collectively play oversight role as MPs. To bring it to a close, there are many people out there who are working on COVID-19. This matter had been raised earlier, but I need to speak on it. We have village elders. They are the ones who are in contact with the people on the ground. They inform the chiefs who in turn inform the Executive. Those people are completely forgotten. When it comes to matters of people who are vulnerable, nobody thinks about them. An ad hoc committee that is formed by Parliament will bring these things together by working with other disciplines so that, at the end of the day, we have The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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