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    "content": "from the Speaker’s office to the Clerk’s office - ensure that as we close this session, most of the legislations that will have been proposed and debated are followed up to their conclusion in the National Assembly. That is how this House can realize effectiveness. Lastly, Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to talk about the fact that most of the business of this House is carried out in committees. Looking at the Calendar, it is proposed that we sit three days of the week in the afternoons and that does not mean that the Senate is not working. This is in recognition of the fact this House carries out most of its work through committees. We have agreed as a House that we will constitute our committees after the presidential elections because that is an important event in our cycle as a country. It is also important for this House to recognise that in carrying out our mandate most of the work is done through committees. Committees should be facilitated because we had serious challenges in the last session while trying to share out the revenues between the two Houses. A formula was introduced whereby most of the monies which were duly and rightly supposed to be coming into the Senate to facilitate committees to carry out their work were reduced. Eventually we had committees running out of funds to carry out their business midway. I can say with reference to my committee that way before we could execute our business, we found ourselves stuck because there were no funds to enable us carry out our functions. Madam Temporary Speaker, as we speak now, the Treasury has already sent us a circular confirming that funds have already been disbursed to the counties. It is important that we use the upcoming recess which is included in this Calendar to go and be part of the process as county governments start to formulate policies. We should start asking what those funds have done in the counties in tandem with our mandate. With those few remarks, I support."
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