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    "id": 1414199,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute. This is a very important Bill and I rise to support it. The objective of this Bill is to get a legal framework for coordination. Most disasters normally have an emergency element. If there is an emergency element, there is need for preparedness, which has to be done beforehand. We need working government structures. I support this Bill because we need to plan in advance for emergency responses and work through government structures that are sometimes obstructive. We also need a legal framework for coordination. It is not often just one department of government that is involved during a disaster or an emergency. Disasters and emergencies involve many departments such as security, transport and health. These various departments will be doing various things, but they have to come together to deliver during a disaster. This Bill tries to address that. It is even more important for us since we are in a devolved system of government where apart from just having departments, we also have two levels of government. Therefore, we have to make it clear who will manage a disaster. Sometimes there is no time for that decision to be made because of the nature of emergencies. Therefore, putting structures in place is important. I support this Bill because it gives us those structures. We should not only take action, but also look at prevention when dealing with risk. After every disaster, we must find out why it happened, whether it is likely to happen again, and put in place preventive measures. This Bill talks about classification of risks. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you had raised the issue of Clause 33. We should look at it more as classifying the risk rather than waiting to classify the disaster because it would be extremely late by that time. We are talking of risk management. Therefore, we must classify the risk. 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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