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    "content": "need departmental committees for functions that are fully devolved in the National Assembly? We do not need them. If anything, in my view, you need only one departmental committee in the National Assembly responsible for devolved functions called the “Committee on Devolution”, to look at policy matters. It is because of this absence of structuring that some committees do not even have the patience to listen to the advice from the clerks. If the clerk of that National Assembly committee had been allowed to be the one speaking, he would have told them that you cannot call an exercise of visiting a few committees, a research. A scientific research is not made up of that kind of stuff that they are purporting to have done in this regard. Mr. Speaker, Sir, since we do not have a shortage of professionals in this country, we would like the thinking of professionals in medicine to be respected; that the problem today is not necessarily devolution. Devolution has achieved milestones in terms of infrastructural development at our medical facilities. The problem is the administrative challenges like in Machakos County where money meant to buy medicine was used to buy 175 police cars. This is where we are supposed to make the difference as the Senate. We should be allowed to do it, without allowing busybodies to do so. I oppose what they are doing in the National Assembly."
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