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"speaker_name": "Kuresoi North, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Cheboi",
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"content": "coalition agreement deposited in his or her office to the Clerks of Parliament, to assist Parliament to transact its’ business; and, (b) Petitions to Parliament’s Procedure and (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which seeks to amend the petitions through the Parliament Procedure Act, 2012, to empower the relevant committee of the House to process all aspects of petitions made to Parliament. Hon. Speaker, on this one, there was an issue I did not speak about when we were dealing with the issue of the Petitions Committee. Sometimes, there are members of the public who come to picket around Parliament. They at times sleep outside Parliament, and at times stay there for two to three days. We are trying to create a system using the Petitions Committee, when somebody wants to picket, they would be given a specific place to do so for a certain restricted time. Surely, even if you want to picket, within an hour, you would have been heard and the particular petition that you are bringing to the Assembly would have been picked and processed. We do not want our electorates to be outside here, suffering overnight and maybe, stay for two days when we can manage. We have, therefore, created this particular one under the Petitions Committee where they would process some of the petitions the public would want to bring here or to picket, or any of those other things. (c) The Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill, 2022, seeks to amend the Public Finance Management Act, 2012, to increase the period of consideration of the Budget Policy Statement by the House from 14 to 21 days. (d) There would also be the Structural Instrument (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which seeks to amend the Statutory Instrument Act, 2013, to require a regulation making authority to submit evidence of compliance with annulment of Regulations to the House. (e) The Parliamentary Powers and Privileges (Amendment) Bill, 2022 which seeks to amend the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Act to remove the Speaker as the Chairperson of Committee on Privileges, and to require the House to consider Members who have served in leadership positions of the House, and those who possess particular qualifications when constituting that crucial Committee. I want to point out that as a Committee, we thought that, as much as possible, we should retain the Speaker in some to these very serious committees, including the Committee on Petitions because we considered that a Speaker is a true representation of Parliament in terms of power and stature. The only thing that seriously improved on the issues that arise out of powers and privileges was to create a more serious Membership. Now that you are here, Members, and some of you are first termers, when you come back in 13th Parliament… I can see the Member of Kabuchai Constituency, who, is not only a first termer, but has also served here for a few months. I hope his constituents - and I am not campaigning for him because I would be happy to campaign for everybody else - would be very sad if he were to go home this early because he has not even known the procedures and yet he has tried to learn the procedures. Some of you are first termers, but when you come in the next Parliament, you will be second termers, and it does not matter if you served a month or two in the 12th Parliament. The Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Committee should be a replica of the Standards Committee in the House of Commons. You would want to put there very serious Members of this Assembly. Am not saying first termers are not. I am saying that when you are a first termer, there are a few things that you have not acquainted yourself with to deserve a situation where you can preside over issues to do with discipline of your colleagues. You will not even have probably familiarised yourself that when you get to such a committee, you need not to have some political 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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