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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Temporary Speaker. I also rise to appreciate the Committee and thank the Chairman for this very serious issue on rejection of the draft SRC Regulations. As much as the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 gives us an opportunity to appreciate that we can agree and support each other, the most unfortunate thing is that the SRC has deliberately refused just to work with other organisations. The issue of salaries is not an issue of Parliament only because whenever we talk about it people think we are talking about Parliament. We have several commissions – Judicial Service Commission, Teachers Service Commission and many other commissions –and SRC should sit down with each of them and agree on recommendations that are favourable. I have never seen in the world, even in the ILO agreements and labour laws, and in our own labour laws, where a CEO of an institution reduces salaries. You find that SRC has powers at any given time to decide today you can earn less salary. We should go back to SRC and look at the formula they use to look at different institutions. Why is it that when we agree that you are in the same scale with, for example, 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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