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    "id": 741854,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand to move that the County Pension Scheme Bill (Senate Bill No.20 of 2016) be now read a Second Time. You will recall that this Bill, in an earlier version, was tabled before this House way back in 2014. The House, in its wisdom, rejected that original version of the Bill. The Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, in conjunction with various stakeholders, developed another version of the Bill, which is what is before the House. This Bill was subjected to public participation and because of the very wide interests in the national Government and across the county governments, which have quite a number of separate entities--- There is the Speakers’ association, several workers’ associations, the Council of Governors’ and so on. This Bill has gone through a lot of consultations and stakeholders’ participation. The version which is now before the House is what has been agreed upon by the all the stakeholders. The Committee has come up with a number of suggestions; we will be shortly tabling a report on that, I believe on Tuesday. If there is anything important that this Senate is going to do for this nation and the devolved governments, it is the passage of this Bill and the eventual establishment of a harmonised pension scheme for the county government workers. At the moment, we have a very awkward situation where some pension schemes and provident fund schemes were inherited from the earlier local authorities. When devolution came into place, those who were manning the several schemes under the local authorities moved quickly to try to incorporate the workers into this or that scheme. The Council of Governors also had their way of thinking on how the county government workers would be catered for once they retire. At the moment, we do have a semblance of two schemes. One is an insurance scheme and the other is a provident fund. We, as a Committee, looked at a way of harmonizing this. We would like to urge the House to pass this Bill after we have harmonised this, after consultation with all the other Members. We do appreciate that this Bill, after being passed by the Senate, will still go to the National Assembly for"
}