{"id":680558,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/680558/?format=json","text_counter":438,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Langat","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":384,"legal_name":"Benjamin Kipkirui Langat","slug":"benjamin-langat"},"content":"Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. While I sympathise with what happened to Hon. Gumbo’s amendments, he has mentioned me adversely suggesting that I played a role in his amendments not appearing on the Order Paper. We have always engaged with the Hon. Member and other Hon. Members in the Committee. I wish to inform the Member that those engagements are usually in the spirit of trying to get consensus so that when we come to the House, we come with one or two documents or amendments. The Member remembers that while he was in my Committee, I told him that he needs to fight for his amendments on the Floor of the House. At no time did I promise him that I would carry over his amendments. Hon. Gumbo is the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). He is an old Member of this House. He knows that the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade does not determine which Private Members’ amendments appear on the Order Paper and which ones do not. I agree that if there are issues in the Office of the Clerk, you should follow them up. I want the Hon. Member to know that I did not play any role in his amendments not appearing on the Order Paper. I sympathise with his situation but I do not want him to accuse the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade because I did not and would never in any way determine which amendments appear on the Order Paper and which ones do not. All the amendments come to the Floor of the House. It is up to the Hon. Members of the House to determine whether the amendments pass or not. I sympathise with his situation but he should not blame the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade or the Committee for that matter."}