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    "speaker_name": "The Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is the Fourth Report of the Procedure and Rules Committee, and I would like to highlight the amendments carried out by the Committee, which may be classified under five main categories. These are pertinent amendments proposed in the report as follows: a) Editorial clean ups – including correcting indexing and grammatical errors. b) Amendments relating to structure of the standing orders – such as rearrangement of parts; merging, splitting, editing and renaming of various provisions and so on, in order to give the standing orders better flow and clarity. c) Codification of existing procedures and practice in the Senate – for example, vacation of office of the Speaker, Deputy Speaker and statements hour. d) Aligning provisions of the Standing Orders with the Constitution and relevant statutes – for instance, on the procedure for consideration of statutory instruments. e) Substantive amendments relating to the procedure for consideration and disposal of business before the Senate . Mr. Speaker Sir, I would like to highlight a few of the substantive amendments in the Report relating to the procedure for consideration and disposal of business before the Senate: 1. New Standing Orders on the vacation of the Office of Speaker and Deputy Speaker was introduced, as there was previously no procedure in place should such and eventuality arise. 2. Introduction of the temporary suspension of a sitting to discuss a specific matter. For this one, in fact, we have been suspending but there was nothing that provided for it. 3. To make the Deputy Speaker the Chair of the Liaison Committee. As you are aware, currently it is the Speaker who is the Chairperson of the Liaison Committee. However, in the other House, it is the Deputy Speaker. 4. Reintroduction of Quorum at the commencement of a sitting, in order to comply with Article 121(b) of the Constitution on Quorum. This is happening in the other House but we are not provided in our Standing Orders to call for quorum at the beginning of any session and this has been included in this amendment. 5. Inclusion of the procedure for impeachment of the President and Deputy President, which is currently not contained in the Standing Orders. 6. Formalizing the procedure for delegation of the power to vote by the head of a county delegation, this is currently done administratively. It is being provided for in the amendments so that we have a formal procedure of delegation 7.Clarification on when the work of Mediation Committees begins. This one is very important because we have had the dragging of mediation for a very long time. 8. The Standing Committees to consider the budget policy statements aligned to their respective mandates and other recommendations to the Committee on Finance and Budget and the timelines in which to do so. 9. This is a very important one that Members should take note of and that is the splitting of the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC) into two. The current CPAIC has been split and we will have a Committee called the County Public"
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