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    "id": 34735,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/34735/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Kenya has Sessional Paper No.6 of 1999 titled: Environment and Development as a Key environmental policy document and the basis for the Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act (EMCA) of 1999. The EMCA, 1999, is a framework law that provides for effective co-ordination of regulation of all actions directed at or likely to have influence on the environment. There are also sectoral policies, for example, in agriculture, water and land that support environmental sector governance. (b) The Draft National Policy of 2008 was an effort by the Ministry to address identified gaps in the Sessional Paper No.6 of 1999, which I have referred to and any new environmental challenges that have emerged since 1999, as correctly articulated in the Question by the Member. We now have a new Constitution with strong messages on the environment and natural resources in terms of quality, access, availability and the overall mandate of the national Government as well as the county governments. I have, therefore, gazetted a taskforce from 1st November, 2010 to review existing legislation, make recommendations and draft new Bills that can be presented to the Cabinet. (c) The taskforce term ends in November, 2011, and I expect to have a document on policy before the Cabinet and subsequently to Parliament."
}