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    "id": 372046,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, as you know, the powers of a Committee are clearly stated. I do not know how many more teeth you want them to be given. If they have 32 teeth, we cannot make them 40 teeth. If hon. Members attend Departmental Committees or Select Committees before which Cabinet Secretaries and other Government officials appear and give undertakings, Committees may table their Reports to say that the Cabinet Secretary or whatever Government functionary has given a certain commitment and undertaking, so that the Committee on Implementation would pick them up from that point. The Committee will then be helped by the hon. Members who will have raised the issues to ensure that Government undertakings are implemented. I also suspect that there is an issue of people not being very comfortable appearing before Committees because there may be no cameras to capture them as they participate. So, there is the issue of thinking of how to get hon. Members to be seen on television to be representing the interests of their constituents. I am sure that if Reports come here, which contain undertakings from Government, the Committee on Implementation will be seized of the matters in those Reports and make follow ups. Hon. Members will also be attending the proceedings of that Committee, or constantly reminding the Committee that a Government functionary gave a certain undertaking and request that they see the Committee’s progress Reports. In the interim, we may have to suggest that we go that route because, short of that, we need to amend several laws, including the Constitution, quite apart from the Standing Orders. I can see that hon. Midiwo has a burning issue but before he says what it is, let me recognise an intervention from hon. Millie Odhiambo."
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