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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ng'ayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As the Mover struggles with what to say, allow me to take this opportunity to add my voice in support of this Sessional Paper. Before I talk about it, let me also take this opportunity to congratulate the Members who have been appointed to serve in the PSC. Allow me to quickly point out that for some of us who have been here before, we can quickly attest to the fact that the quality of some of the work we are producing in the parliamentary committees is way below what was produced before. The quality of the members of staff we have has a lot to do with the PSC and so, it will be incumbent upon the Members who have been appointed to the Commission today to ensure that they engage persons who would add quality to the work Members of Parliament do. They do not need to be their family members! It does not mean that they should not offer employment opportunities to those who are related to them, but if they do so, let them employ qualified people who can add value to the kind of work we do. On the same note, allow me to ask the PSC, to be careful when it comes to promotions. It is important that promotions in this institution are based on merit. It should not be done based on any other criteria because if that is the case, then you demoralise members of staff who have served for a long time. They should not be overtaken just because perhaps they do not come from the regions where the PSC Commissioners come from. They will not be able to perform as expected by the Members of Parliament and produce quality work which is expected from an institution of this nature. Coming back to the issue of the Sessional Paper No.3 of 2016 on the National Housing Policy, it is right, opportune and encouraging to see the Government take this kind of a bold step. The reason is that members in the society, who may be classified as belonging to the poverty level, might never access housing if we leave them to the issues of supply and demand. The Government must step in to help them in a big way. This Policy seems to address that issue. I should take this opportunity to thank and congratulate Prof. Kaimenyi. This policy paper has come to the Floor as a result of the work he did while serving in this Ministry. I wish him well, wherever he has now been appointed. Of course, that reminds me that I need to say something about a comment made by our good friend, the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I think that kind of a comment is unfortunate. He needs to be informed that it hurts deep and those are comments that at times have put us on the wrong side of the law and made Kenyans to fight each other. It is not proper to demean others who never went to study where you did. I do not even know whether he studied there. I am talking about him because of the casual nature with which he made that comment. Suffice it to say, that the Housing Policy Paper requires our support and it is good that all Members have supported it."
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