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"speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also wish to support the Statement by Hon. Didmus. Hon. Speaker, with regard to what you are being asked to give direction on, Standing Order No.42 is quite clear. I have just been perusing through it. The drafters of these Standing Orders did not envisage any other position other than that of the CS and, in his absence, the PS. The question that we should be asking ourselves is: When we ask questions as one arm of Government, whom do we ask? We do not ask administrative secretary questions. We ask someone with executive powers in an office in the Executive. I doubt that the CAS has executive powers to appear before parliamentary committees. Maybe, His Excellency the President, in his own wisdom, sought to create that position to enable CSs to have more time available to appear before Committees of Parliament. Administrative work that would, otherwise, bog down either a PS or a CS, can now be delegated to the CAS. I am glad that for the time that I have been the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, I have not seen one single occasion where the CS or the PS in the National Treasury has not had time to appear before Parliament. The national Treasury is one of the busiest offices for a CSs and a PS. If they create time to appear before Parliament, including this morning when 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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