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"content": "Bill, the Insurance (Amendment) Bill, the Competition (Amendment) Bill, the Contempt of Court (Amendment) Bill and the Universities (Amendment) Bill among others. Similarly, we have debated and adopted several reports, key among them the Report o f the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources regarding the Ratification of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, which we passed this morning. Kenya, therefore, joins very few countries which have passed Paris Cop 21 Ratification of Climate Change Agreement. We have also considered the Report of the Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing on the Inquiry into the Status of the Implementation of Phase One and Phase Two of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR); the Report of Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation on its consideration of the Parliamentary Service (Senate Monitoring and Evaluation) (Procedure for Management of Funds) Regulations 2016; the Report of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security on the Vetting of Lieutenant, Rtd. Col. Julius Ayub Githiri for the appointment of the Chairperson of the Board of the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA). Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as Members may be aware, the next year’s general elections, which will be held on 8th August 2017, have necessitated several changes in the Budget cycle. I want to make it very clear that nobody in this country can change the date of the next general elections. Not even the political class of our society, or the Executive or the Judiciary or the Legislative arms of the Government, can change the date of the next general elections. I heard my good friend and former Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Musalia Mudavadi, with his famous NASA – I do not know what NASA means – say that there are people who want to change the general elections date. For you to do so, you must make the people of Kenya go to a referendum. Secondly, because of the Budget cycle, this House, and indeed the National Treasury, have already set the ball rolling for approval of next year’s Budget, including the approval of all relevant Budget related items. The Budget Policy Statement is one of the items that are ordinarily submitted to the National Assembly in February. The Budget Policy Statement has already been submitted to the House for consideration. It will be scrutinised by the various committees of this House and critiqued. The committees will finally present their reports to the Budget and Appropriations Committee as we proceed on recess. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Committee of the whole House will be functioning until 15th December for them to resume in early January. The Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade, and the Departmental Committee on Legal Affairs, are supposed to prepare themselves for the approval hearings of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairperson, and commissioners of the Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA). Upon resumption from recess, our priority business will be the Budget related items, consideration by Committees of the whole House of the Public Finance Bill, the Proceeds of Crime Bill and the Anti-Money Laundering Bill, among other Bills. I want to make it very clear that all the Bills that have not been introduced to the House, and more so those with constitutional timelines, as well as Questions that have not been put for Second Reading, cease to exist. I hope the relevant Committees will re-publish those 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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