Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 853953,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/853953/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 62,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
    },
    "content": "On behalf of the House Business Committee (HBC), we looked at the calendar of the House for this Session and saw that the last day the House will transact business will be on 6th December 2018. This means that we only have two weeks remaining. Looking at the status of business pending in terms of Bills, Reports and Petitions, the HBC, under your leadership felt that we can have morning sittings beginning tomorrow so that we can dispense with all the pending Reports of Committees and Bills. In essence, if we do not do that these Bills and Committee Reports will lapse as per our Standing Orders. We felt that by the time we are leaving on 6th December, we should have cleared everything on our Table, whether it is Bills, Petitions, Reports of important Committees, Motions and even Questions to Ministers. That is why even this morning the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has tabled the audited accounts for 2014/2015 Financial Year. We also have the 21st Report of the Public Investments Committee. We have very critical Bills like the National Youth Service Bill which is on the Order Paper this afternoon and will be read First Time. We felt that the Thursday morning sittings, if the House agrees with us, will be used to deal with matters before Committees in terms of Bills, Committee Reports, treaties and protocols which are before the Departmental Committee on Health, Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations and the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning among other Committees. That was the essence and genesis and I will ask the Leader of the Minority Party, who is a Member of the HBC, to second."
}