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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Veronica Maina",
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    "content": "The State is also enjoined to take appropriate legislative policy and other measures to set standards to achieve the progressive realization of the rights provided for in Article 43 of the Constitution. The Committee observed that we required additional or specific standards to be provided for in that Bill, so that we can have a standard on which to measure whether these rights, once provided for, can be measured over time. This is because, it is one thing to say that a Bill has provided for housing of Kenyans and another thing to measure whether two or 100 units of houses are enough. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there must be provision of standards to show if we are talking about housing, then at what level of housing are we doing a progressive realisation of that right. One of the items that have been provided for that would require reconsideration by the Mover of this Bill, Sen. Mungatana, is to consider introducing a set of standards to achieve what is intended by the Bill. Additionally, we have observed that the social and economic rights are also cross- cutting in nature and they fall in different sectors. So, they cannot be provided for under that Bill in one stroke. They should be addressed maybe through different sectoral legislations so that they become more refined and better. When we are talking about water or finance, they go to the specific sectoral legislation that deal with the finer and minute details of where each social and economic right should fall into. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we were also of the view that some of these social economic rights could be existing in various legislations which have been fronted to this House through the Senate Majority Leader from the concerned Ministries and State departments. For us to comprehensively evaluate whether these social economic rights are provided for, it would also be important that the existing legislations are also analysed so that the gaps can be addressed."
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