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    "id": 1229019,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1229019/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
        "slug": "aaron-cheruiyot"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will be very brief because I am cognisant of the fact that we have 20 minutes only and almost every colleague wants to speak. I will limit myself maybe to two minutes at most. I appreciate the work that has been done by the various Committees and the two Committees that have laid their Statements today. These are the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources. They have updated the House on various Statements, Petitions or Bills that they are considering. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am concerned. This is because looking through the House - I hope I have the wrong impression - I expected colleagues to be writing down on work that is pending before a particular Committee and what has been colluded. I know each of the business that a committee considers is driven or extracted out of either a request by colleagues or something that concerns the various counties. Be that as it may, I appreciate that this is a new practise that we want to set up, as a House, so that we can measure our chairpersons and see which Committees are taking their work serious. A Committee that can bring a report and say maybe out of 15 Statements, we have been able to settle 10 and we have five that are pending. Out of two Petitions, one is concluded. As you know, the time for Petitions is 60 days but we were able to turn around in 30 days. Additionally, there is a Bill that is before us and we have done the report and public participation. Any task that does not have a way of measuring it is not a task that is worth undertaking. I appreciate that now we have set in place a mechanism through which we can measure the output of our committees. Mr. Speaker, Sir, perhaps, we can move even further. This is just but the beginning. Committee Chairpersons, unfortunately, do not have very rosy reports about the work that is ongoing in our committees. Each Committee of this House has nine Members. Unfortunately, when you listen to the various Chairpersons, they will tell you that they are lucky, on most days, to raise a quorum of five. That is something that should worry us, as a House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to encourage that if you feel that you serve in a committee where your talents are not well aligned, for one reason or the other, it is good to approach the Whip from your side of the House and have them redeploy you where"
}