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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Kioni and Hon. Odhiambo, I am on my feet! For avoidance of doubt, you are being out of order, Hon. Kioni. You cannot sit there and start shouting that you are on a point of order. Which point of order? Who gave you the leave to say you are on a point of order? You cannot... He stood in his place citing Standing Order No. 218. Hon. Ichung’wah cited Standing Order No. 218 but overlooked Standing Order No. 216 which deals with mandates of departmental committees specifically and more particularly, subsection 5 of Standing Order No. 216 which states that the functions of a departmental Committee shall be to; a) investigate, inquire into, and report on all matters relating to the mandate, management, activities, administration, operations and estimates of the assigned ministries and departments. In doing these investigations, the committees are at liberty to act without seeking authority, that is, suo moto. The Committees also have a function to study the programmes and policy objectives of Ministries and State Departments and the effectiveness of the implementation; study and review all legislations referred to it; study, assess and analyse the relative success of the Ministries and Departments as measured by the results obtained as compared with their stated objectives; and more importantly investigate and inquire into all matters relating to the assigned Ministries and Departments as they may deem necessary and as may be referred to them by the House. On their own, the Committees are not limited. With regard to what Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah has raised, you do not have to wait for me to give a Communication because all committees have been doing this. You only need to go to the Fourth Schedule and know the areas that you cover and the activities of the various Ministries and Departments. You are at liberty. You do not have to come here to say that you want to go and find out whether people are doing irrigation or the parts that the Ministry of Water is doing irrigation in because that is your mandate. You do not have to come here to seek authority. You just need to ask the Clerk’s Office to facilitate you to go and find out who is being supplied with electricity in the Last Mile Connectivity Program (LMCP) and such like things. You do not have to come to the House. It is just the Clerk’s Office to facilitate a particular Committee. The only valid thing is whether they are going to report their findings to the House. If you undertake an investigation, you must bring a report to the House. The Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security and the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning are hereby put on notice to bring Reports of their investigations and inquiries here. 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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