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    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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        "legal_name": "Julius Kipbiwot Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I salute and thank the Speaker, who is the Chair of the PSC, for the good work he has done. The work that the present Speaker has placed before the Members of this House is outstanding in the sense that the Commission is coming out very clearly on the welfare of Members. It is coming out very clearly on the issues that face the representatives of the people. As Members, we represent our constituents. That is the quality of work that we need to do in our constituencies. I reiterated the issues of research and legal departments last week. The number of employees in those units is not enough for Members to carry out their responsibilities very well. I remember cases where some Committees share research and legal officers. How will they dispense issues that affect them? I can even give an example of when we were coming up with a Bill and had to wait for our legal officer because he was working in another Committee. With such good reforms, all the Committees and Members in this House will carry out their responsibilities very well. Secondly, there was an issue that I raised earlier on. I will table an amendment to the PSC Bill. The amendment is on the fact that staff should be employed from each and every constituency so that Parliament can have the face of the Republic of Kenya. I have the list of all the staff members and the constituencies they come from. You will realise that Parliament is skewed in terms of staff employment. Forty-one constituencies have the highest number of staff members serving in this Commission. A hundred and fifty-one constituencies have no single staff member serving in this Commission, which is very unfair. As I laud the Commission, this is the right way to go. We want to look into several issues coming up within the PSC and make the Parliament of Kenya one of the best in this region. Lastly, looking at this Bill, especially on the issue of the pecking order, I want to point out one thing. Members of Parliament rank lowest on the pecking order. Even senior The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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