Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 552737,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/552737/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 61,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 382,
        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
        "slug": "amina-abdalla"
    },
    "content": "I am glad to report that the basis of that amendment, especially on the reports, was a misunderstanding in one of the clauses regarding a review of a plan and the production of a brand new plan. I am happy to report that we have now come to a middle ground on the time it takes for the counties to do their action plans and for the national Government to do its action plan. We have conceded to move from three years to two years. I am happy to also report that the Senate has appreciated that environmental reports cannot be done annually because things in the environment do not change that fast. They have agreed that the time it takes to do action plans be retained as per the recommendation of the National Assembly; each county must produce one plan in five years. The national Government should collate the plans from the counties and do the national plan in six years. This negotiated version takes into account the extensive experience of the Members of the committee, who work in the environment sector, and who know that it has been impossible for any government to produce a state of the environment report annually for the simple reason that it takes too long to do that. Clause 23 has been amended to provide that after two years from the commencement of this Act there should be an Environmental Action Plan and every six years after that for the national Government. In Clause 25, the counties will then do theirs in one year, and do a new plan every five years to coincide with giving the national Government one year to collate and come up with their national plans. That is the gist of the negotiated versions of Clauses 23 and 25. Those were the four contentious clauses and that is what was agreed. I want to take this opportunity to thank the Members of the National Assembly who were with me in that negotiation, namely Hon. Tonui and Hon. William Kamoti, for their active participation and Senators for being a very agreeable group that appreciated that we, as Parliament, the National Assembly and the Senate, must safeguard constitutional principles and should not set precedents that are going to jeopardise the separation of functions as stipulated in Schedule Four of the Constitution. With those remarks, I wish to request Hon. ole Kenta to second."
}