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    "id": 1400711,
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    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I have heard Hon. Kaluma in terms of requesting for winnowing. The amendments in the Order Paper are from the Committee, Hon Shakeel Shabbir, Hon. Mayaka, and Hon. Kaluma. The amendments by Hon. Mayaka and Hon. Shakeel are similar to the Committee’s amendments. Therefore, if Hon. Mayaka’s or Hon. Shakeel's amendments are carried, then the Committee will drop its amendments. We have no issues with that. Regarding some of the amendments that have been brought by Hon. Kaluma, the Committee agrees with maybe one or two of them. Regarding moving into winnowing, I want to state that this Assisted Reproductive Bill has undergone thorough public participation. We had the Gynaecology Society of Kenya, Marie Stopes, the Law Reform Commission, and the Kenya Human Rights Commission. We also had the universities. We had practising gynaecologists bring in amendments, as well as the church. We have listened to various proposals and that is why the Committee has brought in a lot of amendments to make sure that this Bill is done. Assisted reproductive health is being practised in this country. We only need to have a law that can guide the practice. I would like to implore Hon. Kaluma to allow us to dispense with this. He will have to convince us during the Committee of the whole House. There will be amendments that we will agree on, and there are those that the House will decide on. This matter should be prosecuted. Since the Standing Orders provide for the opinion of the Speaker, I implore that you give us a go ahead to prosecute this matter. We allowed winnowing of the Kenya Drugs Authority Bill. Hon. Kaluma came in and we carried his amendments. We agreed with him on that one. We did not have issues because it even involved the change of the title. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we want to request your office to put the Kenya Drugs Authority Bill on the Order Paper so that we can finish with it. This Committee has done winnowing and we have been waiting for it to be put on the Order Paper. Until now, it has not been put on the Order Paper."
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