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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Tom Oluoch",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also wanted to address the issue about equality among the different arms of Government. Parliament is not subordinate to the other arms of Government. The responsibilities that Parliament has must be funded in the same way that we have given 85.4 per cent of our Budget to the national Government. The roles of the National Assembly and the Senate are clearly indicated under Article 95 of the Constitution. The National Assembly represents the people of their constituency and their special interests. Parliament also exists to solve the problems of its people and the people they represent. We are in the unique position in which we sit everyday here to make legislation without, like what Hon. Cecily Mbarire has said, sufficient staff to help us with research and other things. We also run our constituencies. To date, our constituencies’ members of staff have not been paid. I am going to propose, among other things in the Committee of the whole House, that we create a parliamentary fund similar to that in Article 173 that has created a Judiciary Fund. Every time when you need to go for a trip or seminar, you are told the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) has failed. When you need your mortgage, you have to go back to the National Treasury in order to do the duties of an independent organ of Parliament. This is one of the things we must do in order to ring fence the independence of Parliament. I will bring that amendment so that we establish what mirrors that which is in Article 173 of the Constitution."
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