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    "id": 868131,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Katoo ole Metito",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
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    "content": "Motions which were brought by private Members were used to influence policy direction in the Government. Since the 11th and 12 Parliaments, I do not think those Motions really make great impact. We no longer have the position of official reply to those Motions. If you look at them, they have always been urging Government. Therefore, there has not been any commitment that such Motions will be implemented. Even the Committee on Implementation has been finding it very difficult to follow up on the implementation of those Motions. Therefore, I suggest that the House really utilises the time allocation of Wednesday mornings. Through the Procedure and House Rules Committee which always reviews the rules of the House - and I know it is sessional and its term has ended and it is due for reconstitution - I suggest that it looks into that and allocates Wednesday mornings to debating Committee Reports. The way I have observed during the 11th and 12th Parliaments, Wednesday mornings that are set aside for discussing Private Member’s Motions do not influence policy formulation in Government. Maybe, the Motions are very difficult to implement because we just like “urging” the Government without coming to concrete suggestions. That time could be set aside for debating Committee Reports. That will remove the backlog of Committee Reports that are lying in the Office of the Clerk; especially the reports of Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Public Investments Committee (PIC) and other committees. I would agree if it is a Private Member’s Bill and not a Private Member’s Motion. In the new dispensation of the presidential system, where persons to give official replies to such Motions are not here to commit to the implementation or otherwise of those Motions, I do not think we are utilising the time of the House in that sense. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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