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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Chairman. First of all, we welcome you back. We have missed you in the Chamber for a long time. I want to make two comments. One is that credit for this legislation should really go to the National Assembly. Hon. Members will remember that we spent many hours going up to midnight to structure these Regulations. Although the Senate brought them back with amendments, hon. Members have once again showed a lot of maturity in discussing the Senate amendments. We have shown that it is not everything that the National Assembly and the Senate clash on. In fact, it should never happen at all. We must always develop a consensual approach to debates within our two Houses, so that we can make Regulations that are good and that makes us deliver the services we promised to our people. Therefore, hon. Members of the National Assembly have looked at the bigger picture. In spite of hon. Members having difficulties with the Senate amendments, they still decided that they will pass them so that wananchi can benefit. Hon. Deputy Chairman, the last comment I want to make is that, next time we have Regulations in this House it is important that the Cabinet Secretaries in charge of those Regulations should consult with the National Assembly as much as possible, so that we do not get into the difficulties that we had. That is because this House had structured the entire Regulations. If the Cabinet Secretary would have crossed-checked with the Leader of Majority Party and the Clerk’s office; I am sure that we would have had Regulations nearer to what hon. Members were feeling rather than how we went through them. Therefore, I want to thank hon. Members of this National Assembly for the work well done and having shown maturity in the manner in which they have debated this Bill. Thank you."
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