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    "id": 429862,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/429862/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kamau",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 35,
        "legal_name": "Jamleck Irungu Kamau",
        "slug": "jamleck-kamau"
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    "content": "I know that you had made a ruling on this matter before but I want to request you to revisit your ruling based on the duplication that apparently is being seen on the work of the Departmental Committees and the PIC. If I refer to the Standing Orders and my own understanding on this and the work of the Committees, the Departmental Committees’ functions under Standing Order No.216(5) are:- (a) investigate, inquire into, and report on all matters relating to the mandate, management, activities, administration, operations and estimates of the assigned Ministries and departments; (e) investigate and inquire into all matters relating to the assigned Ministries and departments as they may deem necessary, and as may be referred to them by the House.” On the other side, the mandate of the PIC under Standing Order No.206 is “to examine the reports and accounts of public investments; examine the reports, if any, of the Auditor-General of the public investments and examine, in context of the autonomy and efficiency of public investments, whether the affairs of the public investments, are being managed in accordance with sound financial or business principles and prudent commercial practices”. The same Standing Order says that the PIC shall not examine any of the following:- “Matters of major Government policy as distinct from business or commercial functions of public investments; matters of day-to-day administration.” When I look at the work that my Committee and several other Committees have been doing, we do not want to get into a situation where we keep duplicating the work of the Committees. Specifically, I recollect recently that there was a standoff between the railways project. The PIC was doing it and the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing was also doing it. On the NSSF Tassia issue, it was the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare together with the PIC. On the ferry business, it was the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing and the PIC. It was the PIC that was also on the ESSAR, Geothermal Development Company (GDC) and the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) issues. I think we need to come up clearly so that we get proper direction on how we will be conducting these businesses so that we are not seen like we are too quick to move into various issues that we do not have jurisdiction over, that is the reason why I want to seek your guidance on this matter."
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