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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, clearly, we need technology advisers in the Senate. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the list as per the Order Paper. I also support my colleague, Sen. Kiraitu Murungi, in the suggestion that he has made. I would like to go further and suggest, as somebody said when we were in Naivasha, that there should also be, in addition to the two Committees – the County Governments Investments Committee and County Governments Accounts Committee – the Senate oversight office at the county level, so that even long before the accounts are brought to this House and investments are made, we should not audit wrong investments where money has already been spent. What we should be looking at is an oversight Committee at the offices in the counties, so that we can stop those investments before they are made and not audit them after they have already been made. Within the budget of the counties, there should be the Senate Oversight Budget Office, so that we know what is happening before it happens, and then proceed to audit them after they have been done, in the manner in which Sen. Murungi has proposed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in addition to that, even as I look at the list of the proposed Committees, I would also urge that once the Committees begin to work, as per the Standing Orders, some of them can also be split and new ones formed. For example, there is the Committee on Education, Information and Technology, where I have been listed and will urge my colleagues that I can tell them one or two things in it as their leader. I feel very strongly – and indeed it should be the order of our business once we sit as a Committee – that we propose for adoption by the Senate, the separation of education as a stand alone Committee and then, information and technology as another Committee. This then gives leeway and opportunity to oversight the areas of education in a manner that can be comprehensive. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in addition to Committee “B”, Committee “C” has got Energy, Roads and Transportation. Again, energy is a very big issue in our country at the moment and so are roads. Therefore, that is another Committee that can also be split into the Committee on Energy and Committee on Roads and Transportation. So, I think that even as we agree and adopt what has been proposed, it will be necessary at some point to bring some amendments to the Senate. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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