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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I had indicated that it would be our wish to complete debate on the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bill for the concerns that were expressed by hon. Isaac Ruto earlier. That is because of some deadlines that may need to be integrated within the process. If we do not finish today, we should then take a decision on how to do it before the deadline that he is concerned about. In terms of the other concern on the specifics, the reason as to why I have not listed down all the specific Bills is because I know that we have been talking of the various finance-related Bills. There is the Budget Policy Statement and the Pre-election Report, which will be coming to the House. There is the County Allocation Bill. Once the Bills are published, we will get the specific references so that I can present them to the House. That way, we can be talking of, say, “The County Revenue Bill”, rather than just make reference to a general Bill. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, therefore, that is the reason as to why I have not specified them. I do not have the specific details for them but, generally, all the Bills relating to finance will be coming to the House. They have been approved, including The Supplementary Estimates. So, the Bills that will be coming here will be tabled for First Reading. The Bills are not yet here because they are not yet out of the Government Press. On the concern raised by hon. Ekwe Ethuro, it will be covered within the adjournment debate. It would be my desire that we finish everything, even if we have to work on Saturday and Sunday. We will be calling upon the House that we actually do the extra mile. The concern was that we just come for a half a day, which we will discuss in the Motion. Coming here for only half a day, after covering all those distance, may not be worth bringing hon. Members and staff to Parliament. But that is something we can discuss when we get to the Motion. In the meantime, that is the programme for next week. We hope to cover all the business shown here. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what hon. Chachu Ganya has asked is very important and I would like hon. Members to travel with us on this route. Hon. Members have brought to this House many Bills. We have done a lot of work. Those Bills have gone through the public participation process and parliamentary Committees. But we have limited time. I have spoken with the Speaker on this matter. The only route that we have, now that we have the new Standing Orders, which will guide the business of this House between now and the next Parliament, we have an opportunity to make amendments to save all the work that has been done by this House to automatically transit to the next Parliament."
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