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    "id": 492943,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you look at experiences in some of the other countries, we can see that this opportunity for the Committee on General Oversight where we will be interacting with Cabinet Secretaries--- If you look at the size of the Cabinet, that tells you that if it were in the Tenth Parliament where we had a Cabinet of almost 40 members, it does not give Parliament enough opportunity to exercise its oversight responsibility, more so because even when you are in the Committee on General Oversight, a Member who possibly is more skilled or exposed to a particular field will not necessarily have priority over any other hon. Member who may ask a question of concern to his own constituency. So, my view, therefore, is that we are in the process of implementing this system and we should be open-minded. Let the Cabinet Secretaries come. We will implement this and we will learn from it. In the process, we may decide whether it is helping us as Parliament to achieve more oversight effectiveness over the Executive or we may require revisiting the issue of the existing Committees. My view is whether we have this Committee on General Oversight, there is a strong case for insisting on us strengthening the Departmental Committees. This is basically because as Departmental Committee which has fewer Members, you can be sure they have the ability to build their own capacity to oversee Ministries than the Committee on General Oversight. I have no doubt about that."
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