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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, this is not a committee that is called catering. I need to make it very clear. In the 10th and 11th Parliaments, it had this tag of catering and members did not like it but now we are calling it the Committee on Members’ Services and Facilities. This is a Committee that will work hand in hand with the Parliamentary Service Commission. So, it is a serious Committee. Standing Order No. 212B (1) provides that: “There shall be a select committee to be designated the Committee on Members’ Services and Facilities. The Committee shall be responsible for- (i) receiving and considering views of Members on the services and facilities provided for their benefit and wellbeing; and (ii) advising and reporting on all matters connected to the services and facilities provided for Members.” The Committee, being a sessional committee, needs the approval of the House at the beginning of every Session like the Committee on Parliamentary Powers and Privileges. Those who were in the 10th Parliament, Hon. Mbadi and the rest, will agree that it is good for Members to read the Powers and Privileges Act. It will save you one day. He is not in the House right now but the Member for Yatta, Hon. Charles Kilonzo, and I tabled a Report in the 10th Parliament. We were told to appear before the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations on the issue of the International Criminal Court (ICC). One evening, the Speaker wrote us a letter to appear before that Committee. We went and read that Act and we wrote a long letter to the Speaker saying that our immunities and privileges and the powers did not allow us. So, we said we would give our evidence on the Floor of the House. So, it is good that you have kept on saying that we should read it."
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