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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "being picked so that when the time comes, we will work around it. I am aware that the Supreme Court has spoken. It said that we can proceed, but let us do it in the right way. They have also given us the time to do it the right way. They have not come to us and said just do it for the sake of doing. Therefore, as we speak on this matter, we have to ask the Chairs of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee (JLAC) and the ad hoc Committee if they are in a process to.. I am hoping the process we had started in the joint committee that Parliament had approved concerning our funds is continuing. We should not delay or derail it because that will be very unfair for this House. We cannot be given an opportunity to pass the funds and then squander the opportunity. We must not go back to the drawing board. We are about to set out a rare process which will lead us to redundancy. We will need to merge them and this will be so unfortunate for this House. Can we stand firm on what we started when it came to our funds? We need to deal with our funds as we await on this. It is a process that we need to ask ourselves whether we want to see these issues being merged into one Bill. If this is combined to one Bill, we will be shooting ourselves in the foot. We will be forced to take all these issues to a referendum which will be very sad for this House. Let us also be legislators who believe in ourselves that we can legislate and move things. Hon. Temporary Speaker, today, we have left the courts to legislate. The other day there was an interesting ruling where the courts decided with finality that clinical doctors in Nairobi be exempted from paying certain license fees. There are certain licences that they are normally given by the county government. One wonders. How are you going to move away from this? I am hoping that women will achieve the two-thirds gender rule but in the right way. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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