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    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to thank Members of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning for their input on this Bill. I would also like to single out Hon. Keynan, who has sat through the debate this afternoon. I have thoroughly enjoyed the contributions that all the Members have made. I assure you that the views you gave will enrich this piece of legislation. As a reply, one of the issues raised by the Member for Funyula when seconding was on the question on the Fourth Schedule, which provides for establishing a disciplinary process for these insurance professionals. The Member's intuition was that this could disadvantage these professionals or be a source of unnecessary bureaucracy. I checked through to see what other legislation on professional bodies have. For example, the Accountants Act (Cap. 531), which regulates the Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) and Company Secretaries, has a disciplinary process provided for in the Fifth Schedule. The Engineers Act (Cap. 530) has Part VII that also provides for the disciplinary process. The Human Resource Management Professionals Act (Cap. 538) also has disciplinary provisions in Part V. Finally, the Advocates Act (Cap. 16), Part XI, also provides for a disciplinary process. Therefore, the provision of a disciplinary process is not any different from what has been provided for in the other pieces of legislation. We hope to accommodate as many of those remarks by Hon. Members as possible during Committee of the whole House. This is to ensure that we have a very good piece of legislation. On the question by Hon. Keynan, it is important to clarify that we have expressly provided that this particular institute will not be funded by the Exchequer because the exams administered will be paid for by the students. Therefore, there will be no need to burden taxpayers any further. I thank everyone who has immensely contributed to this great piece of legislation. I also thank the people of Molo Constituency for giving me a chance to serve in this Parliament. When they come to Parliament, they want to see their Member of Parliament proposing good laws for this country. This is one of such laws. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with that, I beg to reply. Thank you."
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