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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, for those of you who own and produce reports, move for their adoption, sign Bills and move them. What hon. Chepkong’a has done is what you should copy. If you are the owner of a report or a Bill, you must remain in the House when debate is going on so that when it comes to replying you know what it is that you are replying. You do not just come after three days and say you are replying saying that we will follow up what Members said. What did they say? You were not there and nobody has taken notes on your behalf. Very soon I will be directing that clerks in charge of Committees be in the House to take notes on behalf of Chairpersons so as to inform them. I have seen people owning Bills and when they are called upon to reply they come and say: “I thank Members because of what they said; we will incorporate” You will incorporate what if you have not followed debate? It is a learning process and a new system. In the past, Cabinet Secretaries used to sit here and listen. In their absence there were their assistants or technical staff from their Ministries to take notes so that when the owner of a Bill is replying, he is responding to every point of divergence that may have been touched or raised by hon. Members contributing. For instance, hon. Chepkong’a has addressed the question raised by hon. Mwaura that, yes, we consider disability but the law says you must go through a process of a selection panel and your name must be forwarded to the House. That is the kind of response we expect from the Chairpersons of Committees responding to debates. Therefore, I put the Question."
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