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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I truly thank you. I take this opportunity to wish you a happy new year and also congratulate you and the Clerk of the National Assembly for the amazing work that has happened in this Parliament during the recess. I stand to support this Procedural Motion on Limitation of Debate on Consideration of Senate Amendments to Bills originating in the National Assembly because this is one of the opportunities that this House gets to showcase its prowess against its sister Chamber, the Senate, where you served, Hon. Speaker. Whenever the Senate returns some amendments to this House, those debates are normally very critical because at such a point, this House is able to showcase its level of debate, transaction of business and showcase itself as the true upper House of this bicameral Parliament. Hon. Speaker, I observe that this afternoon is a perfect example of how you end up being appropriated issues that are not concerned to your Chair. This is the day that we are passing procedural Motions and dictating how much time we allocate to specific ones. You can see how the Chamber is populated. Later on in the session, we shall get into problems with Members of Parliament appropriating some responsibilities that do not belong to the Chair. They will say that you are appropriating time but when the business was being conducted, the same Hon. Members were not in the Chamber. Hon. Speaker, I am again calling upon the Whips of this House to whip the Hon. Members from different parties to ensure that they are present when very serious business is happening up to and including what looks like mundane business-like procedural Motions, up to and including the omnibus Bills, where we suffer quorum hitches because of lack of mobilisation of Hon. Members to participate in very important debates. Hon. Speaker, I support the Procedural Motion. I am okay with the time appropriated. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker."
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