Local Development Minister Abu Bakr El Gendy patching things up with Parliament was the talk of the town on what was a very bland night on the airwaves.

But first, startup SHOPX was named the winner of last night’s edition of the CIB-sponsored Hona Al Shabab contest. SHOPX walked out with EGP 100k in prize funding from CIB after beating out Delivery Zyada and DMC Chargers, which landed in second and third place, respectively (watch, runtime: 2:46).

Egypt’s healthcare expenditures hover at around EGP 145 bn, 62% of which comes out of citizens’ pockets, Vice Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait told Masaa DMC. Maait reviewed the main planks of the Universal Healthcare Act — the government’s 15-year, EGP 600 bn healthcare coverage plan — and noted that the insurance scheme’s budget is kept separate from the general state budget to ensure it has enough room to breathe in terms of funding (watch, runtime: 13:27).

Now on to the Gendy Drama: Prime Minister Sherif Ismail all but held El Gendy’s hand as he apologized to House Speaker Ali Abdel Aal for telling MPs that “he throws their requests in the trash,” according to Al Hayah Al Youm’s Tamer Amin, who praised Ismail for his mediation skills. Amin also wagged his finger at El Gendy for his “inappropriate” statement before engaging in an act of mental acrobatics that saw him brush it off as a “slip of the tongue” (watch, runtime: 6:34).

The issue took all of 20 minutes to resolve, which had Kol Youm’s Amr Adib wondering what the point of all the drama was. Adib urged MPs to keep their cool in the future and not make mountains out of molehills (watch, runtime: 2:55). In an attempt to further understand the non-issue, Masaa DMC’s Osama Kamal wondered aloud if El Gendy discards these requests because they are illegal or otherwise worthless (watch, runtime: 6:12).

Resolving the Gendy “crisis” seems to have prompted the House to backtrack on the urgency of a cabinet shuffle. While the performance of four or five ministries is “not as fast-paced” as they should be, Parliament does not have any major objections to the current government, spokesman Salah Hasaballah said. The Support Egypt Coalition could be tapped to form a more capable government, but the topic has not been broached, according to Hasaballah (watch, runtime: 9:17).