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    "id": 794231,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Cheptumo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 50,
        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I wish to seek leave of the House for extension of time within which the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs will table a report in respect of the Parliamentary Service Bill, 2018. This Bill was read the First Time on 13th March 2018 and committed to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No.216(5)(c) so that it can go through public participation, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No.127(1). The Committee was to consider the Bill and submit a report to the House on or before 3rd February 2018, but it requested for a 21-day extension of time which was granted on 3rd April. The extension period was to lapse yesterday, 25th April 2018. Yesterday, we wrote to you seeking extension of time and you approved that request. In the course of public participation, the Committee received memoranda from stakeholders with some proposing weighty amendments to the Bill. Having engaged a few of the stakeholders, the Committee is certain that it requires more time to extensively engage other stakeholders so as to pronounce itself on the Bill from an informed position. In view of the foregoing, the Committee is not in a position to submit its report and wishes to request for a further extension of time. Considering that the House will be proceeding for the long recess from 4th May 2018 to 4th June, 2018, the Committee intends to make good use of the recess period to scrutinise the Bill and, therefore, humbly requests the House to approve its tabling of the report any time after the recess. That is the basis of the request, that we be given more time so that during the recess, we can have time to scrutinise the Bill, engage other stakeholders and finally file our report."
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