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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank the Senate Majority Leader for the honour of seconding this Bill. This is a very tough conversation considering he is my senior and he has been in these parliamentary precincts longer together with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, therefore, akin to other issues of rank. On seniority, he will appreciate and acknowledge the fact that this would be the first time we are attempting to amend DORA. Initially, DORA used to include conditional allocations. However, the amendment that was done on DORA in 2018 was not substantive to the issue of equitable share. That amendment happened because in 2018, there were more available funds to add to the conditional allocations. Therefore, it was amended without talking about the equitable share. However, we have never had a situation in this country that required the amendment of DORA so as to touch on the equitable share. The reason is and this is true even during the time of COVID-19 pandemic, which Sen. Cherarkey talked about, there were bigger shocks which could have necessitated the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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