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    "content": "“Every county environment committee shall within one year of the commencement of this Act and every five years thereafter, prepare a county environment action plan in respect of the county for consideration and adoption by the county assembly.” Members agreed that the amendment by the National Assembly on Clause 25 of the Bill, as proposed in the new subsection 40(3) be adopted as follows:- “The executive committee members of every county shall submit the county environment action plan referred to in subsection (1) to the Cabinet Secretary, for incorporation into the national environment action, referred to in section 37.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, those were the four clauses that we had contention on. I want to once again thank the Speaker for appointing Sen. Kivuti, Sen. Chelule and I to this Committee. When we were appointed, I heard some murmurs from my side of the divide. I did not know what the murmurs were for, but when this Bill was brought to this House, it is our Committee that handled it. It is us who took it to the public hearing at Shimba Hall at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC). Therefore, it is us who are versed in this Bill and in your wisdom, you picked on the right people who understood it and moved the actual amendments that were in contention. You had the right team to go and represent the Senate in the Mediation Committee. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we met on the first day, we agreed from the beginning that as the two Houses of Parliament, we must always act in the interest of the people of Kenya. We forgot about the imaginary differences that are there between the Senate and the National Assembly and looked at this matter very objectively, with the interests of the people of Kenya in mind. That is why we were able to resolve the issues in one meeting. In fact, the second meeting was just a matter of going to adopt what we had agreed on and sign the resolutions. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the House adopts this Report and call upon Sen. Kivuti, who was the Chairman of the Mediation Committee, to second."
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