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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have also passed the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill, (Senate Bill N0.3 of 2014) and the Division of Revenue Bill. If you add the other four Bills, that makes it ten Bills. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this House has disposed of 10 Bills between February and now. That is a good record. If we continue that way, we will be talking about an excess of 25 Bills by the end of the Session. That is very commendable for this House. I do not want to take a lot of time so that other colleagues can also have an opportunity to contribute to this Bill. However, I would like to say that we have urgent legislation when we resume. I hope that during the short recess, we shall do the other commitments that we have in the counties, make international travels, both official and private, so that we come back to embark on four critical Bills that have a constitutional deadline of 27th August 2016. Since we have a bicameral Parliament, once we pass those Bills, they will have to go to the “Lower House” for concurrence or mediation in case of differences. We will be working in a very small room of maneuver because the four Bills that we have to dispose before the constitutional deadline are the Forest Conservation and Management Bill (National Assembly Bill No.49 of 2015) which was scheduled for Second Reading today but it is impossible to go through it; The Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expression Bill (National Assembly Bill No.48 of 2015); The Natural Resources (Classes of Transactions Subject to Ratification) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.54 of 2015), and; the Health Bill (National Assembly Bill No.14 of 2015). The Health Bill is important given what is happening in our counties. The Health Bill does not only have a constitutional deadline but it is also aimed at responding to the kind of thing that the Senate Minority Leader was talking about here. If we are not careful, we might lose out on the health sector and it will take a very long time to recover it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am happy to note that the new Cabinet Secretary in charge of education is doing something in that sector because that is also another sector that we might lose if we are not careful and recovering it may be very difficult. The County Allocation of Revenue Bill whose Second Reading was yesterday and whose Division was today is also a critical Bill. I hope that we will pass the five Bills that I have mentioned as soon as we come back from recess. We are going on recess at a time when the counties are facing unprecedented crisis. The hue and cry out there is about how money has been used. There is agreement from all the stakeholders and ordinary Kenyans that we are almost losing devolution to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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