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    "content": "that the Speaker is aware. The Speaker may allow or refuse to allow the Statement to be made if it leads to a matter that cannot be properly discussed before the Senate. Standing Order No.74 relates to roll call voting. The roll call voting has been complex as provided for in the current Standing Orders. We are proposing that the Standing Order be simplified so that the Speaker may allow a vote on several clauses to be done at the same time. We are just qualifying the practice that has been developed at the instigation of the Deputy Speaker which has largely been adopted as the practice in the House as we did earlier today. This process allows for various processes to be voted on during at division at the same time without necessarily ringing the bell for every vote. On the issue of Senators handbags, both ladies and gentlemen can bring these into the House. Even men need to carry out documents. We raised the issue of size with the individual Senator. The other matters are about Committees in the schedule. I am moving to that in view of the constraint of time. It is being proposed that some Committees are too large and that their mandate is very wide that they cannot effectively cover it. We proposed to split and create new Committees under Standing Order No.206 where we are proposing that this new Standing Order be created. In that Standing Order, we will have a new Committee called the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee. That Committee should support the Senate in its oversight functions regarding the affairs of the counties by looking at the Report of the Auditor-General and special reports on County Governments Funds and to examine reports of the Auditor-General on the County Public Investments and exercise oversight over County Public Investments. We were also proposing that the mandate of the Implementation Committee be expanded because this Committee now has no teeth. It is being recommended that the Implementation Committee examines matters relating to Acts passed by County Assemblies and subsidiary legislations of the counties; on whether those Acts are being implemented or not. We should also give the Committee on Implementation power to recommend sanctions against public officials. It also proposed that a new Committee be created out of the current Committee on Agriculture, Lands and Natural Resources so that we create a Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and also a Committee on Lands and Natural Resources because the mandate of that Committee recently created is too large to effectively be covered by one Committee. We are also proposing that the Committee on Finance, Commerce, and Economic Affairs be restructured so that we create a new Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget which will review the estimates of the county governments, examine budget policy statements and examine Bills relating to county budgets and division of revenue. The Senate, as a protector of the interests of the counties needs to play a more visible role in the budgets of the counties. The Committee is also recommending that the Committee on Health, Labour and Social Welfare be restructured so that we have a Committee on Health to deal with matters of medical services and public health and sanitation. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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