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    "id": 706845,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, even under NG-CDF, there is a provision for monitoring and evaluation money. That money is supposed to be spent to monitor and see how projects are being implemented. Why are we asking the Senate to monitor and evaluate projects in counties and when they are asking for finances, we say no to the same? Let us be fair. I want to tell the Committee on Delegated Legislation, with all due respect, please, let us allow these regulations. There is no legislation that will ever be perfect. I also blame the Legal Department. The Senate operates within Parliament and we have a Legal Department which has worked on these regulations and you are telling us that our Legal Department is not up to the task. How then would we get regulations presented to this House if those regulations have issues with matters of law? Either we are not being honest or then the PSC, and I can see Commissioner Wanga is here, need to crack the whip and ask our Legal Department what they are doing. They are embarrassing the Senate and they will embarrass the National Assembly. I am shocked to read in this Report that the grounds upon which the Committee on Delegated Legislation is rejecting the regulations are matters of law and procedure. What is this? Does it mean that we do not have capacity in this Parliament? Do we not have people who can draft regulations that comply with the law? In my view, we are going to do a lot of disservice to ourselves as a House and to expose ourselves as petty, fighting the Senate for no good reason. The fight we have had is enough. We are almost coming to the end of this Parliament. Why do we not, at this point in time, agree to be magnanimous, as a House, and allow these regulations to proceed? If there are issues, the regulations can be amended once they are implemented. We can amend the regulations. I oppose the Report of the Committee on Delegated Legislation and with a lot of respect to Hon. Cheptumo. I know he is a polished lawyer in this country. So, I am not undermining his Committee, authority or intelligence, but I am just saying that let us be fair to our sister House. This Parliament is bicameral and we must facilitate each other. Let us not abuse the powers that we have as the National Assembly in terms of appropriating money and allowing legislation to that effect. Thank you and I oppose."
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