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    "id": 872880,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I think the point is made and it has sparked quite a bit of debate. However, one thing that disturbs me is this: I have heard our Chair say that we need a legislative framework so that our counties can start executing the retirement scheme. Is this House saying that given that this Bill concerns counties and is not a money Bill as it states, and originated in this House, it is not in a position to provide the right framework? Are we saying that we can only provide a framework from something that has come from the National Assembly when, in fact, we had debated this and were almost done? I know that there are concerns that perhaps when it goes there it will be stood down, but this is happening with all the Bills. I know in my Committee on Information and Communication Technology (ICT), for instance, we did the Data Protection Bill that was threatened for another data protection Bill to come, but we stood our ground and said that we would move on with it. If there is any need for harmonisation, why is it not that the Senate framework is the one that then accommodates the harmonisation rather than the other way round, where we are throwing out our own Bill?"
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