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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, you have noted that sometimes you have to wait for a quorum, yet over 60 Members of this House are Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons of committees. The whips do not even need to go looking for a quorum. I know the other efforts you have put in as the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) Chairman, including engaging the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) to ensure that Hon. Members are properly facilitated to be available in the House. I plead with all Committee Chairs to always be available in the House, not just during the budget-making process. They should be available even during ordinary sitting days. When Members raise Requests for Statements, you often have had to ask the Leader of the Majority Party to commit to when a Statement will be provided to the House. It has now become customary to say “two weeks.” I get very embarrassed because sometimes I cannot trace the Committee Chairs within the precincts of Parliament even when I leave the Chamber. At least at the rise of the House at 2.30 p.m. or 9.30 a.m., it is imperative that Committee Chairs are in the House. They must be in here. I can see a few new Committee Chairs. I must congratulate Hon. Nyikal on his election as the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health. I ask other Chairs to emulate Hon. Nyikal, not just as a Departmental Chair but also as a diligent Member of this House. He is ever-present in the House."
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