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    "content": "I referred you to Standing Order No.43 (2) and I cannot go back to it. Let me give you another one. In the interpretation, on Page 22, section 2 (3) it states:- “In the Standing Orders, whenever a document is required to be provided or made available to Senators, the document shall be considered to have been so provided or made available if placed in the Senator’s pigeon-holes or in such other place or availed in such other manner as the Speaker may direct”. How to do you make documents available in the House? It is by placing papers on the Table of the House. That is why we have an Order on Statements on the Order Paper of the day. By raising Statements here, then they go to the record of the HANSARD, by getting a document as you enter the Chamber or as we had previously agreed, in a room where you can obtain any other documentation as needed. But also the Senate Majority Leader was unfair to the House because he knows that even this very afternoon, in the Rules and Business Committee (RBC), I was the one who moved an agenda which he sought last week; on how we can facilitate some of the issues that he had raised last week on the Floor. The Speaker, as the Chairman of the RBC, was the one who brought that agenda to the Floor. So, he knows that we are always more than willing and ready to go even beyond what I have raised here in terms of the normal ways in order to ensure that the Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Minority Leader are facilitated. But between the Cabinet Secretaries and his office, I am afraid there is not much the Chair can help unless you bring it to our attention and we will deal with it as a House. If you bring it to the attention of the House, we will handle it as a House. Secondly, in terms of whether the Government has failed or not, you recall last week, there were Committee Chairpersons who were able to make Statements as demanded and in record time or even earlier than the time they had promised. So far, no Chairperson has made a report to this House about lack of co-operation from Cabinet Secretaries. Even this afternoon Sen. Kivuti has said that some of them are actually co-operating very well. So, you do not expect the House to Act on rumours. There must be a basis for everything; there should be a considered position by the Committee Chairpersons. They should come before the House and say that they are not getting support from the Executive, then the House will pronounce itself on that particular matter. I think everybody should be guided from today henceforth. The Senate Majority Leader, we will see what we can do to help you. But in the meantime, I believe that you have sufficient recourse to undertake your job, including assuming responsibility for the failure of Committees. Sen. Benson Njoroge!"
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