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    "id": 1525865,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration is coming and has more than 10 questions to respond to. We have been sitting since morning; we need guidance early so that if there is no space for supplementary questions, we do not have to wait. If we do not get a chance, then why did we indicate in the Standing Orders that supplementary questions will be asked? In fact, the Standing Order should only allow the people who are asking the questions to ask the question. It is unfair for Members to come here at 9.30 a.m. to ask further supplementary questions or even to assist in the guidance of the House and not be given a chance. This does not apply only to me but to a number of colleagues who have sat here since morning. The next Cabinet Secretary has more than 10 questions, and even if you are to indulge the House to rise at 1.15 p.m., it will not be sufficient. Will you indulge the House using Standing Order No.1? If that is okay, the owners of the questions in the Order Paper can drop their supplementary questions and allow other Members to ask further questions. If it is not possible, under Standing Order No.1, kindly guide the House so that Members do not expect to ask. We can be good listeners, and we can listen through. Since my question was simple, I wanted to find out from the Cabinet Secretary the position of USAID on the payment of Universal Health Coverage. This is a live issue. I know you have UHC in Garissa and Kericho. Is the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning looking into the same, following the suspension of USAID that has been catering for that? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need your interpretation of Standing Order No.1. When a Cabinet Secretary appears here to answer questions, from your dashboard, you can tell whether an answer is sufficient to a question. If a Cabinet Secretary has not answered a question adequately, and by looking at the reaction of Members, is it possible for you to direct that the Cabinet Secretary withdraws that response and perhaps comes back after seven or fourteen days, so that we also do not waste time? The reason we ask more supplementary questions could be because the responses are not sufficient. I need your guidance on Standing Order No.1 where Cabinet Secretaries give answers that do not satisfy the House, or we feel that they have not taken the House seriously. Another issue is this. For example, today we will have Cabinet Secretaries for Interior and National Administration, National Treasury and Economic Planning, and Labour and Social Protection. If some of them have many questions to respond to, is there a way we can have just two, for example, the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning and the Cabinet Secretary for Education? We agree that there are many issues. Is there a way the Senate Business Committee (SBC) can sit and agree on that? 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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