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    "id": 707046,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipyego Sang",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, looking at the Communication that you made, I have no doubt that my Committee will not take more than three days to report to this House. The Standing Order No.215 indicates this must be done within 21 days. I am sure by Tuesday next week, we will be able to have that report. However, it is important to refresh ourselves on the journey that we have taken on these regulations so that we appreciate that this is not a matter of legality, but it is about politics. You will remember that the first Kshs1 billion that was allocated to us courtesy of negotiations between this House and Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) was taken away by the National Assembly when we undertook our constitutional responsibility of increasing resources to counties. That is where the rain started beating us. Subsequently, we had protracted discussions and negotiations with the National Assembly to the extent that we agreed that we publish regulations pursuant to the Parliamentary Service Commission Act. This was a recommendation by them. We did exactly that only for them to reject the same regulations and tell us that we needed to publish them under the Public Finance Management Act. Again, we considered, worked together with them, they rejected it and they took us back to the PSC. Further, they told us that we needed to discuss with the National Treasury. I remember, led by Sen. Kiraitu, we went and met the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury, Mr. Henry Rotich, who agreed and allocated resources. The National Assembly again rejected this. I chair the Delegated Legislation Committee. When we sit down to consider regulations, we have never had an opportunity to even annul a single regulation in this House. This is because where we have issues with regulations we invite the regulation making authority and tell them that we have issues with “x”, “y” and “z” and they agree to review and we proceed on. When there are issues with one or two of the regulations that were published, they had the opportunity to invite the Kiraitu Murungi led Committee and tell them we have issues with “x”, “y” and “z”, but they refused to do that. They went ahead and annulled the entire regulations in totality. It has nothing to do with the law because they even broke the procedure. We, as House, would be naïve to imagine that it is anything to do with the Public Finance Management Act or that there is a problem with the law. The problem that we have between us and the National Assembly is a political question."
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