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    "id": 742938,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to contribute and say the Chairman of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare has a point. Whether we like it or not and until and unless the administration of Parliament and the Standing Orders are changed such that we are able to get Statements when they are sought, we are able to get the Government officials to come to the House. The House can very well organise its Standing Orders in such a way such that an official comes and finds us as a Committee of the Whole. This is so that if they have the answer, we are able to ask the question and any subsidiary questions which we want. As it is, the Chairman and his committee will very well request for the answer. Much as you may require or want to force that Government department to answer, when they do not want to, they can linger on and on, and there is little that we can do. But if they were going to be compelled to come here, that would be the answer, the long term answer. We graduated from the old Constitution in good faith to the new Constitution. Previously, that problem was not there because those answering the questions were Members and they were on the floor. But as of now, that has to be addressed. Otherwise, Parliament will remain with that persistent problem of an answer which never came from where it is supposed to come."
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