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    "id": 817496,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to the Second Schedule of the Standing Orders. You have given directions on two Petitions. With regard to the Petition relating to Bomu Hospital in Mombasa, you have committed it to the Committee on Health as well as the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. If you read through the Second Schedule of our Standing Orders, in terms of the respective mandates of Committees, there is nowhere in that Petition, whether from the body or from the prayers, that the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare that I chair comes in. I think that in relation to the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) Co- ordination Board, the correct Committee is likely to be the Senate Committee National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to urge you to reconsider the committal of that Petition to the appropriate committees as required, so that it can be processed properly. Even as you do that, the thrust of the prayers in that Petition are for the access of quality affordable healthcare which, in my reading and the reading of the Standing Order, is the preserve of the Senate Committee on Health. I posit that the Senate Committee on Health is competent enough to handle that on its own. Joint committees come with their peculiar challenges of quorum hitches and different matters under committees. Ideally, you could just commit it to the Senate Committee on Health. If it has to be joint, then it will be the Senate Committee on Health and the Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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