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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
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    "content": " Hon. Senators, I welcome you to these Special Sittings of the Senate. The sittings are a follow up to the one held on Tuesday, 29th August, 2023, so as to conclude on urgent legislative business. On the request of the Senate Majority Leader vide letter Ref. No. SEN/ML/009/CORR, dated 25th August, 2023, and with the support of the requisite number of Senators, I appointed today, Thursday, 31st August, 2023, as a day for Special Sittings of the Senate to begin at 9.30 a.m. and at 2:30 p.m. The appointment was made vide Gazette Notice No. 11580 dated 29th August, 2023. In the Gazette Notice, I indicated that the business to be transacted at the Special Sittings shall be the following- (i) Consideration of the Climate Change (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills No. 42 of 2023); and (ii) Consideration of a Motion on the alteration of the Senate Calendar for the Second Session. Hon. Senators, at the morning sitting, the Senate will consider the Climate Change (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills, No. 42 of 2023) at the Second Reading stage. The Senate will also receive the report of the Standing Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources on the Bill, and a Notice of Motion for the alteration of the Senate Calendar will be given. The business scheduled for the afternoon sitting will be consideration of the said Bill at the Committee of the Whole and Third Reading stages, as well as debate on the Motion for the alteration of the Senate Calendar. In accordance with Standing Order 33(5), the business specified in the Gazette Notice referred to above and as outlined in the Order Papers, shall be the only business before the Senate during the Special Sittings, following which the Senate shall stand adjourned until the date specified in the Senate Calendar. I thank you."
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