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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for indulging me. You know I am usually very diligent and I always carry my card. I think today I had a very busy day. I just wanted to raise an issue relating to the Statement by the Leader of the Majority Party. One, I wanted to call upon you to give a ruling because of the Parliamentary practice, especially from what I saw in the Tenth Parliament; we were allowed to interrogate. What has been happening is that every time we have tried to intervene in relation to the same in this House, we have not been allowed. I just wanted to get your direction on that. Secondly, if I am allowed, I just wanted to interrogate in relation to the business that has been laid before us for next week. I am very concerned that we have been doing some work, but a lot of the work we are doing is mainly amending legislative work from other Parliaments. I am concerned that we have a lot of legislative agenda that this House needs to do and that we need to prioritize which is substantive legislative work. There are very few Bills, for instance, the Wildlife Conservation Bill. Largely, three-quarters of the work, if you look at today’s Order Paper, it is mainly about amendments although it is still legislative. I would be happy that we have a legacy as the Eleventh Parliament in terms of our own legislative work. Finally, if you look at the Private Members’ business on Wednesday mornings, it is mainly Motions and yet there are some of us who have brought Bills and we do not know the status of the same. We are not informed about the status of the Bills. I want to congratulate your offices because during the induction workshop, we did a very good production of our work which shows where we are. It is slightly much better than what we did in the last Parliament. We included in it the legislative work of Private Members. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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