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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Ojiambo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Julia Auma Ojiambo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to take this opportunity to thank hon. Members who have contributed to this Bill. Their contributions, this afternoon, have helped a lot to enrich the material that we are putting together to ensure that the product of this debate is of high quality to the professionals who are going to practise under this Act. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Minister for his contribution and the points that he has raised are very important. I also thank him for the support that he has given us during the preparation of this Bill. The Ministerial Committee and the Committee of the Practitioners have been with us, the Parliamentary Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade working on this document for long hours and have been very patient. I want to thank them all for their contributions. I want to thank the contributors this afternoon for their input to this Bill. I want to thank hon. Mungatana for bringing us experience from the lawyers and other professionals, that we are going to add to what we have as we move towards the preparation for the Third Reading of this Bill. I also want to thank all other speakers like the Seconder, hon. Muturi and the Chairman of the Finance, Planning and Trade Departmental Committee, hon. Dr. Oburu, who have brought a lot of very important issues to this discussion. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have picked up specifically the issue of the other practitioners who are not degree holders and who are not of that high training quality that we had envisaged in this Bill, who must also be picked up. These also include the young professionals who are coming up, who are the sons and daughters of the retiring professionals who wish to practice their family trade. We are going to put all of them into an transitional arrangement to ensure that none of the practitioners, suppliers or procurement officers are left out. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have also taken note of the required harmonisation between the private and public sector practitioners and also between the procurement officers and the supplies officers to ensure that the issues that we are addressing are harmonised. I also want all these practitioners who will preside over the resources of this country to be properly harmonised, trained, licensed and that they are regulated in a manner that they will be truly the guardians of the resource distribution of this nation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have taken note of the concerns that have been raised about the disciplinary actions against the errant ones who may want to continue to practice in a manner that has caused this nation loss of property. As we look into this specific law, let us take into consideration advice and not punitive measures that would cause them to think twice before they can again engage in those acts that have denied this nation very useful resources for development. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we have said, we have opportunities to sit together as committees to elaborate on what amendments we are going to bring and when we come to the amendment stage, I hope hon. Members will bring ideas that can be included in the amendments this time so that we can net them in. More importantly, we are going to sit as a committee of the drafters together with the committee of the stakeholders and that of the Minister's office to ensure that we do bring amendments that are going to truly assist this sector of our public activity that is very essential for our resources to function very well for this nation. November 28, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3989 With those few comments, I beg to move."
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