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    "id": 1490445,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to move- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Mediation Committee on the Water (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills No.33 of 2023), laid on the table of the Senate on Tuesday, 22nd October, 2024, and further that pursuant to Article 113 (2) of the Constitution and Standing Order No.167 (3) of the Senate, approved the mediated version of the Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order No.144 of the National Assembly Standing Orders and Article 110 of the Constitution, the Bill was forwarded for the consideration by the Senate. I will go to the specific clauses that we worked on. The Committee held a total of six sittings, with the first meeting held on Thursday, 19th September, 2024 and concluded its sittings on Wednesday, 9th October, 2024. That was within the 30 days that have been provided for by our Standing Orders. The Committee considered the clauses of the Bill that were under mediation and subsequently agreed on a version of the Bill. I want to start with Clause 4 of the Bill because I believe this was a crux of what was in contention between ourselves and the team from the National Assembly. I am very happy that we were able to agree on a mediated version. The Committee considered Clause 4 and concurred with the proposal by the Senate to delete the proviso that provided that a national public water works shall not be transferable to a county government be dropped to allow for the non-transferability of national public water works. Section 8 of the Water Act, 2016, Cap 372, sets out national public water works that are intended to serve a national government function and are financed by the Government share of the national revenue pursuant to the Public Finance Management Act, and hence, the same way not transferable to counties. Further, some of these national public water works cut across counties. Therefore, it will pose an administrative challenge to determine which county to transfer such public works. To make this particular clause easy, especially for my colleagues, this is a proposal of the Senate that we should delete a provision that the National Public Water Works shall not be transferable to the county. However, after what we discussed at the Mediation Committee, after a national public work is complete, the Water Works Development Authority may not or shall not be required to transfer it to the counties. It shall remain as The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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