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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I agree with you that Hon. Ruku is completely out of order. He seems to be requesting for a Statement under the disguise of other things. First, Hon. Ruku has not filed any Question or request for a Statement for the Cabinet Secretary for Health to appear before this House. Under the Standing Orders, the Leader of the Majority Party cannot on his own volition invite a cabinet secretary to appear in the House to be questioned by Hon. Ruku. I only do that pursuant to Hon. Ruku filing a Question or a request for a Statement. The only health-related Question that has been filed this session is by the Member for Yatta, Hon. Robert Basil. The issues he wanted addressed were comprehensively addressed by the Statement tabled on Tuesday by Hon. Pukose, the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Health. Hon. Ruku is seated right where he was seated when Hon. Pukose was reading that comprehensive Statement. I invite Hon. Ruku, if he has issues, to get a copy of the Statement from the Table Office. If there is anything that was not addressed, he is at liberty to file a request for Statement or a Question that the cabinet secretary can come and answer. For the information of the House, all Questions and Statements that were sought last year lapsed. In addition to the Question to the Ministry of Health, there are another 22 Questions, at least one per ministry. We are waiting for the departmental committees to finish the consideration of the BPS. Cabinet secretaries have been shuttling between this House and the other House because of the budget-making process. As soon as we finish with the BPS, we will schedule cabinet secretaries. The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport has the highest number of Questions. Three Questions have already been filed. Other ministries have one Question each. It is not a very efficient use of time to invite a cabinet secretary to address one issue. So, we will begin with the Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport when we finish with the BPS. I invite Hon. Ruku to read the Statement by Hon. Pukose. If there are issues he feels were not addressed by that Statement, he can raise a Question or a request for a Statement, and we will cause the Cabinet Secretary for Health to appear and answer anything else that Hon. Ruku would want answered."
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