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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to seek your guidance in relation to something you have just said. In view of the Motion that we have just passed, I do not intend to take the House back. Indeed, a Member of this House who has been sitting on the Speaker’s Panel might have been drawing responsibility allowances through the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). Being a House that is charged with the responsibility of overseeing Government and public expenditure, I seek your guidance whether the PSC that you chair, is in order to pay sitting allowances or responsibility allowances to a Member who is not exercising the responsibility that he has been charged with. I seek your guidance because as the Vice-Chair of the Public Investments Committee (PIC), every now and then, we are confronted with situations where people have drawn allowances. Very often, we adopt Motions in this House where we surcharge other Government and public officers for drawing allowances that they were not entitled to. I, therefore, seek your guidance as to whether the PSC, which you ably chair, will be moving to surcharge and recover all allowances that might have been paid - I use the word “might” because I am not sure - to Hon. T.J. Kajwang’ or any other Member for responsibilities that they were not exercising. I also wish to take this opportunity to thank you on the guidance you have given on the issue of consultation. Hon. Dalmas Otieno has put it very well. There is no definition of what consultation is. That is a hang-over of the nusu mkate Government of yester-years. You 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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