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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "A Procedural Motion, Hon. Mbadi, and I have said this severally, falls under Standing Order No.97. If you want to limit the time that Members are going to contribute, please do so immediately before the debate on the particular Motion commences. That is what has just happened with regard to the business appearing as Order No. 8. Hon. Pkosing has just tabled his Report on the Kenya Roads Bill. I want to commend him and his committee because just last Thursday they gave an undertaking to the House that they would burn the midnight oil over the weekend to ensure that the Report is produced. Since that Report has just been tabled, I felt that it was necessary that Members have an opportunity to look at it before debate on this Bill which is listed as Order No. 9 commences. I would want to encourage the Members to go to Room No. 8 or the Table Office and get a copy of that Report so that when debate on this Bill commences either tomorrow or whenever it maybe, Members will debate from the position of knowledge and information; one being what the Bill proposes and two, what it is that the committee has come up with after listening to various stakeholders. That is the essence of the House getting to read both the Report and the Bill. It helps because, sometimes you will find a Member rising in their place and criticising a Bill, yet when you look at the Report of the Committee… The committee might have proposed deletion of a clause and since you have 10 minutes only, you spend all of it criticising that which the committee has already proposed to delete even after, perhaps, you have shared with the Leader of the Majority Party and other stakeholders. It is important that what you take your time discussing is that which is in the Bill. That is also informed by what the committee will have come up with in the Report. If you spend your 10 minutes - it is a very short time - discussing that which the committee has already said it will be deleting when the matter gets to the Committee of the whole House, then it means that you might as well have actually appeared before the committee to tell it that a particular clause should not be in the Bill and the committee will have agreed with you that it would delete it. That is why it is important to see what the committee has been informed by stakeholders. 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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