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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Washiali",
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I would like to register an apology from the substantive Chairman and Vice-Chair who are out of the country on official duties. As a ranking Member, I want to give a report on behalf of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives pursuant to your Communication on 14th October. I wish to apprise the House on the business before the Committee as at 21st October 2015, which is today. We have four pending Bills which have already gone through the First Reading. The first Bill is The Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority (Amendment) Bill, National Assembly Bill No.17 of 2015. It went through First Reading on 11th June, 2015. The Committee has already considered the Bill, has adopted it and the report is waiting for tabling. I think we will table it tomorrow, 22nd October 2015. Secondly, under pending Bills, we also have the Seed and Plant Varieties (Amendment) Bill, 2015 which went through the First Reading on 27th August 2015. The Committee has already considered it and the report is ready to be adopted on Monday because the Committee will be having a meeting on that day. We will adopt the report and tabling will be done thereafter. If you allow, Hon. Speaker, it will be on Thursday of the same week. Thirdly, we also have a pending Bill on the Warehousing Receipt System Bill, 2015 which went through the First Reading on 16th April 2015. The report writing is ongoing. The Bill requires radical changes and we may take a bit longer in tabling it. Fourthly, we have a pending Bill, the Food Security Bill, 2015, which went through the First Reading on 7th October, 2015. This Bill is new. The Committee has commenced considering it and I am sure the report will be laid before this House soon. Hon. Speaker, we also have legislative proposals which are at the prepublication scrutiny stage. We have two proposals on the Dairy Industry (Amendment) Bill, 2015 and on Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill, 2015. I am happy to report that we have already considered and submitted the reports for the two proposed Bills. We also have five pending petitions. We have a petition brought to us by Hon. Joyce Laboso on behalf of the representatives of milk farmers regarding the eminent privatization of the New Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC). The Committee has already considered the petition and adopted the report. It is awaiting tabling tomorrow in the afternoon session. Hon. Speaker, we also have another petition brought to us by Hon. Esther Murugi on behalf of the Nyeri County coffee farmers with regard to the production and marketing of their coffee and payment of dues owed to them. The Committee has the petition and has adopted the report. It is waiting tabling and, with your permission we shall have the report tabled tomorrow in the afternoon session. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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