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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipyego Sang",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I want to respond to the issue raised by Sen. Obure. As a matter of fact, when these regulations appeared on the Order Paper, there were a few concerns. First, people had not looked at the regulations and the report by the Committee. We said that we had tabled the reports and regulations in the Senate. Therefore, any Senator who needed to look at the regulations would get them from the Clerk’s Office. The second issue related to the consultations between the Senate, the Ministry and the Tobacco Control Board. I want to share this with the Senate: We invited the Ministry of Health, the Principal Secretary together with the Cabinet Secretary and had a meeting with them informally because they indicated to us that they had worked on the regulations and the preferred option to them is that the Senate considers the regulations, returns a verdict on them and then they would proceed to act according to the resolutions of the House. We also invited the Tobacco Control Board chairman and he also gave the same position. Both parties had decided that they will work with the resolution of the Senate. The other industry players were also invited and they made their presentations. In the decisions that we are proposing in these regulations, the industry’s contribution is there, the Ministry’s position is clear to us and to that extent we are ready to proceed with discussions on these regulations."
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