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    "id": 650773,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to seek your guidance on a matter that has become troubling as far as the Senate procedures are concerned. The committees of this House have virtually ground to a stop specifically because we are being told that there is no money for operations. Further, even our staff - I do not about other Senators - have been struggling to get paid as well. When we started discussing matters of operations in the Liaison Committee, we were asked to go and discuss with the National Assembly on a formula popularly known as per capita operations in the committees. We were advised that the people who can help us in this matter are not actually the Liaison Committee as such but Members of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) from this House. In addition, I am told that the National Assembly has the money. To add insult to injury, I am informed that the money that was supposed to be for the Senate was actually used by the National Assembly on the understanding that it would be reinstated by the Treasury. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the committees have problems travelling overseas. For example, the committee of which I am a Member has not made any single trip overseas. We were happy and quite prepared to travel and oversight county governments but we cannot even do that. We are told that we cannot even go to Machakos County because there is no money. To add insult to injury, we were even told that the Senate Magazine that we have been producing over time cannot be produced for whatever reason yet it was one of the vehicles and avenues that we were using to inform the public about what the Senate is doing. This is a matter that lies in the hands of the Liaison Committee, to some extent, but largely, to the PSC. We have got representatives from this House in that Commission. One of them is present. Time has come to ask ourselves some very serious questions. Sen. Murungi had mentioned this once. Are we able to get our money? Are the current representatives of PSC from this House able to negotiate on such a matter moving forward? Is the PSC representative team from this House able to renegotiate with the National Assembly so that we remove the per capita allocation in the committees? Is the PSC able to reinstate our Magazine so that we can inform the public about what we are doing?"
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