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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Senator is the most appropriate person to convey these messages from the Governors; and because that is our duty, we are the people who represent the counties. So, I fully support that amendment and I also thank the hon. Senators for supporting Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale’s amendment. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me also to thank Sen. Sijeny for her amendment to increase the Members of the Chairman’s Panel to three. We also have been sympathizing with you as you sit for very long hours, and we think this will relieve you and also release you to do much more in terms of the administrative functions and even some reading, which you have to do for the purposes of serving this Senate better. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Senate Minority Whip, my friend, Sen. Muthama, has brought a very important point regarding Members of Committees moving from one Committee to another, merely registering technical appearances and not making any useful contributions to any of the Committees. I think as the Committees increase, we are called upon as Members to take the Committees seriously and do much more. But I will also urge the Office of the Clerk – because they are the ones who allocate rooms and they are the ones who should be scheduling the Committee meetings – to make sure that they do not create concurrent meetings of their Committees, especially where the Members are the same. I have been a victim – I am called to the Committee on Energy, Roads and Transportation at 10.00 o’clock on Fourth Floor; and then the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights meets on the Third Floor at 10.00 o’clock; then I am called from the Committee on Energy, Roads and Transportation to be told there is no quorum in the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. So, I am one of those people who have been running up and down the stairs. It is not that I do not want to work, but the way the Committee meetings have been scheduled makes it impossible for you to concentrate on any particular Committee. So, I think we need to organize our work much better. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having said that, I really want to thank the hon. Senators; we think that we are now going to have a better legal and procedural framework which will make the Senate more efficient than it has been before. With those few remarks, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move. 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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