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    "id": 1151827,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "have taken place, dispute resolution mechanisms relating disputes under the Act and general penalty for offences for which no specific penalty is provided for under the Act. Part IX of the Bill, that is Clause 33, provides for the power of the Cabinet Secretary to make regulations for the better carrying out of the provisions of the Act. Part X of the Bill, Clauses 34 to 35, provides for miscellaneous matters, including the integration of the waste management into school curriculum and for transitional matters. The First Schedule of the Bill provides for the conduct of business and affairs of the Council. The second schedule of the Bill provides for the procedures to be followed in public participation as specified in Clause 23. Mr Speaker, Sir, the Bill does not contain any provisions limiting any fundamental rights or freedom. Clause 31 of the Bill provides for the power of the Cabinet Secretary to make regulations in order to make it better to carry out the provisions of the Act. I, therefore, urge the Members to make contributions in this matter. Anyone can tell you how waste is mismanaged rather than how it is managed because we know how it is mismanaged. In our counties particularly, NEMA has to come clean. It has to become stronger so that when anybody mismanages waste or does not manage waste properly or profitably or does not maintain a clean environment, we have to have somebody to take responsibility. The Bill then now narrows that to NEMA. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a Complaints Committee which means we can now complain to somebody when our environment is not kept clean, when a town or a municipality fails to collect waste or fails to manage that waste and, therefore, spills into water resources or into people’s livelihood. This is a very serious matter that requires that we actually apply technology. It requires that we borrow best practices from other countries that have successfully managed their waste. That is basically not rocket science. We know countries and organizations that have managed their waste properly. This will take out the mismanagement that exists in our counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it also compels us to invest in waste management. It will force us to get the necessary tools and equipment, facilities and institutions to manage waste in a very civilised way. There are many places where you will find that waste is managed and in a situation in our counties where you wonder if NEMA was involved in that matter and if they actually gave permission of the licences for this particular way of managing or mismanaging that waste. This is a very important Bill. As Members speak about waste management situation, we know that our counties have not been successful in managing many things, including our health situations. This one can now be the result of those sicknesses and those illnesses that lead us to go to hospitals, which have no medicine and so it becomes a vicious cycle of some misfortune. I do not want to spend so much time on it. I urge hon. Members to consider and pass this important Bill in order to ensure that the country benefits from sustainable waste management systems. That will offer many opportunities and benefits to both the economy, the society and the environment."
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