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    "content": "hearings? I know Sen. Pareno and even Sen. Were have spoken to this. Do people even know that there is public hearing happening somewhere? As part of amendments to this Bill, I hope we will have robust ways of ensuring public hearings are advertised so that the right people get involved. That should definitely be one of the requirements. Somebody has spoken on the need to have a specific office in charge of tracking progress on public participation outcomes. I do not wish to go to the provisions within this Bill because we have all read and internalised them. They provide credence to many Articles in our Constitution and give teeth to some of our institutions to institute specific regulations and they concern counties. However, the devil is in the details of implementation, tracking progress and providing feedback to the participants and citizens of this country. We need to look at public participation and measure whether it influenced decisions that we made and whether it provided feedback to the citizens whose money we used in the first place. If we do that, then we will get it right. I do not wish to speak too much. Everybody has spoken to how good public participation is and I do not wish to belabour that. We must ensure we hold ourselves and others accountable in the implementation of this Bill. With those few remarks, I support the Bill but with the fact that we need to figure out mechanisms of ensuring implementation and tracking of outcomes of public participation. I thank you."
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