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    "id": 1014365,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "committee should perhaps act as a quality control committee and look at the recommendations coming to the Floor of the House and decide if they are going to be implementable. So, bring in an amendment to ensure that we do not have the Committee doing a lot of work for something that is not implementable or alternatively, giving hope to Kenyans that the House has passed and the following shall be done, knowing too well that it is not implementable. Perhaps we should work as one House and have the COI not just wait to report on the implementability or status of implementation, but to proactively intervene. It should not be only report on the status of implementation, but to proactively intervene at the point of a report being tabled in this House, and almost telling the Chair the report cannot be passed. This can only be done with some more technical expertise at the secretariat level. In fact, I thought the Report would be recommending that apart from clerks being trained, we have a quality control component to look at the quality of a report before it comes here and see whether it is implementable, so that we do not seem to be legislating in vain. It is unfortunate if we come up with a resolution and it cannot be implemented because it is unimplementable. I like the fact that you have flagged some of those things. With some solid examples, we can use them as part of learning and developing the necessary capacity to judge what is implementable and what is not. It will not be necessarily for us, but even for those who will come after this House. That way, they can see the quality of a resolution that is implementable. If it falls below the threshold, the Committee will be told: “The report cannot be accepted on the Floor of the House. Unless amended, it will be thrown away by the House.” Otherwise, we will be wasting one another’s time. I also want to urge the Chair to pick up some of these things. We can give him some time within the framework of the Liaison Committee to share some examples with the other Chairs or have him in the next leadership meeting. We may be blaming the clerks for not doing reports in a certain way, but it is not them who move those reports in this House. It is not the clerks who sign, but the Committees and the Chairs. We want to build the capacity of the Chairs and the committee members level, so that they can own their reports. That way, they do not have to say it is the clerks who draft the reports in a certain way. Clerks will give you a draft, but what you do with it is up to the committee. I think this is what we will share in the Liaison Committee and leadership meetings. What are some of the issues that we have picked up in some reports that are not good and are disharmonious with Government policies that should never see the light of the day in the House? So, we can use them as part of our learning process and make better ones in future. Once again, I want to thank the Committees, commend and encourage them to go through all the other reports and put many of them to rest. Let Members know this so that they can stop asking what happened to their reports. Hopefully, Members will be here next time when we are discussing this Report. That way, they do not keep on asking while you have already done your work. Thank you and congratulations once again."
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