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    "id": 344984,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Muigai",
    "speaker_title": "The Attorney-General",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Githu Muigai",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to apologize to hon. Members to the extent that it is the responsibility of the Executive to have Bills published on time and brought back to this House as Acts of the House. Personally, however, it is very difficult for me to supervise the Government Printer. The Government Printer is not under my office. He does not answer to me, but he is the person who publishes the vellums. He does so, on a priority list that we always urge him to follow. However, we have no means of ensuring that he follows that list. I am as anxious as Members are that Bills we have already passed be assented to by the President timeously in accordance with the constitutional timelines. I spend a lot of time on the telephone and writing letters precisely on this point with the Government Printer. I do not wish to say more because I do not wish that there should appear to be any loss of confidence in that office. All I can say is that we are pushing all the Bills we can from the Government Printer because we can only present to the President the vellums that have been printed. Sometimes the delay is in Parliament itself. This is not a time to apportion blame because the final version of the Bills must be certified by the Clerk. Sometimes the delay is in my office because we must then reconsider a whole raft of Bills with very small staff. Sometimes the main delay is with the Printer because, not only is the Printer printing new Bills, but he is printing the vellums of the Bills already enacted. We shall do everything humanly possible to bring this to a timeous close. As regards to what Mr. Mututho, hon. Member for Naivasha raise, he knows how hard I have tried to be of assistance to him and to his constituent flower farm workers on this issue. As late as last week, we tried to resolve this problem under Statute Law (Miscellaneous) Amendments Bill. We all know why we had to drop all those other amendments to facilitate an expeditious disposal of the business in that Bill. I will do everything I can before this House constitutionally ceases to exist to ensure that the Ministry of Labour supports us on that initiative."
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