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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to reply. I thank my colleagues who have taken the time to speak on this important Bill. Making their contribution and thoughts on something that I said, though brief, is extremely important to the existence of Parliament as an institution. We take this for granted on many occasions, but it has grave implications if ignored. Sen. Mungatana, I thank you for your thoughts. Some of the things that you have said are in practice. For example, I know for a fact that our Committee on Delegated Legislation has a meeting tomorrow with the State Department for Housing. This is because, further to the law we passed on affordable housing, there are regulation making powers we gave to the Cabinet Secretary. The State Department is in the state of developing those regulations to govern affordable housing. How do you buy the House and contribute? They have sent the draft to the Committee for their input. It is also part of the public participation we are talking about. Eventually, when it comes to Parliament, it is already involved as it considers the views of other stakeholders, so Parliament is like an appellate court in this matter. Other stakeholders will come and say, for example, we see the Ministry has proposed the following, but this is what we thought would have been better. Then, Parliament can make the final decision and approve those regulations. Some of the things you are saying are in practice. However, we need to make it the culture. I like that, as I said in my moving note, this is the umbrella law, aligning the Statutory Instruments Act of 2013 to our Constitution and making it alive for people to know that we are in a bicameral legislative environment. There are two Houses of Parliament. There have been instances where regulations are taken to only one House. I have not seen much of that this term, but we have confronted this over the years in the existence of the bicameral Parliament. I thank my colleagues for taking their time. With those remarks, I beg to reply. In accordance to Standing Order No.66(3), I beg to request that the putting of question be deferred to another date."
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