Cabinet has been looking into a matter of agencies or scraping off some parastatals and authorities following a recommendation from the president last year. "Am aware that cabinet took interest in ensuring that there are cost reduction from different agencies and papers are being worked on. At cabinet level papers are being worked on where we are going to come up with a rationale. Government is going to come up with a rationale on which agency is going to merge, which agency is going to stay, which agency is going to go.” Said, Solomon Silwany – MP Bukooli County Central.

According to Solomon Silwany, as the final decision on the organization is made, the budgets of the different parastatals and authorities have already been cut in a bid to save on cost and wastage arising from duplication of roles. "When you look at the current budget that we are presenting before parliament; the reductions have been done. This is going to be presented by the Budget Committee you will note in the different policy statements that are going to be made for different ministries. By June we must conclude this, this must come to an end, we must know which agencies are going, we must know if UNRA is going and it goes and then we start doing different things and we perform and the local people benefit from what we are."

However, Silwany notes that even as cabinet scrutinizes the viability of some of the government agencies, parliament still has a role to play in recommending which ones shall eventually have to be restructured. Many of the lawmakers NTV spoke to voiced their support for merging parastatals as a way of eliminating duplication of roles and wasting scarce public resources. "Most of these parastatals which are created if you look at the number of people employed in civil service it could be ten times the time when we carried these civil service reforms." "Dearly we give them a lot of money and one; accountability and the results are really wanting." Said, Geoffrey Dhamuzungu – MP Budiope East. “We see lots of duplication in the various services that they are rendering to the people of Uganda and it's strongly believed that once they are merged, we shall be in a position to make some saving that can make a contribution in terms of service delivery in other strategic sectors of the economy." Said, Hamson Obua – MP Ajuri County.

However, some MPs argued that more investigations need to be done although the merge is not necessarily a bad idea. “If we continue setting up these organizations and not looking at the element of human resource it will still be. Whether you put it in the Gender Ministry, whether you leave it as an independent institution, there will still be problems.” Said, Michael Mawanda – MP Igara East. “There are certain weaknesses in some of these ministries to the extent that some ministries do not have the capacity to also perform better than some of these parastatals. So having a committee look into this is the best thing but they also need to be very careful because we don’t want to create more unemployment as we already have in this country.” Said, Mpaka Mwine – Western Youth MP.