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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": "When morning breaks, the member of staff would still be sleeping and so would be the Member of Parliament. There would be nobody to prepare the room! I am sure chairpersons of committees and Members agree with me. I am not saying these things because I just want to say them. It is the truth. The members of staff will respect you only when they know that a Member of Parliament is watching them. The Commission is supposed to prepare estimates of expenditure. We agreed on this with the Liaison Office. They are the Budget-makers of Parliament. In my opinion, you cannot compare a House of 349 Members with a House of 67 Members. If the Budget of Parliament is Kshs27 billion, it must be divided by 418, then what you get you multiply by 349 and leave the money here. For our colleagues, you multiply by 67 and give it to them. Hon. Speaker, please, add me one more minute. There is member of staff migration from the National Assembly to the Senate. The reason is that at the Senate, you do not work. Members of staff want to go to the Senate because there is no work there. Two, in the Senate, you will get trips like nobody else’s business. They travel a lot. So, the Kshs27 billion this House passes… We have the powers because the budget-making process emanates from here; not the Senate. We only deal with the Senate when it comes to the Division of Revenue Bill and the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. The budget of the Parliamentary Service Commission is done in this House. We passed Kshs27 billion. We calculated the amount per capita so that a Member of the National Assembly gets Kshs5.9 million while a Member of the Senate gets Kshs9.7million. It is true. How is that possible? So, we are putting the four of you: Hon. Keynan, Hon. Naomi Shaban, Hon. Aisha Jumwa, Hon. Momanyi, on notice if you survive. It The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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