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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, you partly prosecuted the matter I wanted to raise with you. This is a very important Bill. The several amendments proposed, and I can confirm from pages 1479 to 1526, over 48 pages of the Order Paper today, are proposals by the Committee, including the title. I agree with the Committee. Then, there are proposals by other Members like Hon. Irene Mayaka, Hon. Peter Owino and Hon. (Dr) Nyikal. The provision of Standing Order 131 empowers you to direct that where there are more than 10 amendments, those matters or the Bill itself can be referred back to the relevant Committee, which will be the Departmental Committee on Health, for harmonisation. This is what we call winnowing. I was requesting that we do not proceed to the Committee of the whole House if you allow. Because this matter is very serious, it goes for winnowing, and we harmonise all those amendments. Because of the shortness of time, if you look at page 1387 of this Bill, it is a Bill proposing to repeal the whole of the Pharmacy and Poisons Board Act. It is seeking to repeal the Food, Drugs and Scheduled Substances Act. Both statutes are being repealed in terms of the whole act. It seeks to repeal Sections 16, 17, and 18 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. I have looked at those Acts it is seeking to repeal. I have also looked at the sections of the various laws it is seeking to repeal, not in whole but in part, and they are very substantive. It will be, therefore, necessary that we go back to the relevant Committee so that we do not just deal with the Bill itself, but also be assured, by way of cross-checking that the good provisions in the various Acts of Parliament sought to be repealed are incorporated herein. This is the reason I was requesting for winnowing. I know we need to transact this first for the reasons the Hon. Deputy Speaker has given me, but winnowing enables expedition. I was thinking if this were to be directed even tomorrow, then on Thursday, we could take the 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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