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    "id": 1013690,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "Six months was a short time. It was what we were given at the beginning, but I believe we were able to canvass a good amount simply because at that time everything had come to a standstill. Even when we requested for information from the Ministries, we were able to get it quite fast. Now that things are going back to normal, things have slowed down a little bit. For that reason, we are yet to receive the Auditor General’s reports and requests to several Ministries, as our second round of engagements had already started. We need to consider this and give our recommendation to the Standing Committees as we hand over. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have tabled in this House eight reports and all of them have had very good recommendations. We have had a lot of wins. This Committee, with its very committed Members, was able to represent the House at a time when Kenya needed to have its legislative Members participate in the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the biggest achievements this Committee did was The Pandemic Management and Response Bill. We did a lot of stakeholder engagements. Over 160 stakeholders participated in the making of that Bill, and we were able to make our submissions and put our work in the form of themes. We had five thematic areas. We were dealing with the health issues; economic and financial issues, including micro- economic effects, impact of businesses, trade, facilitation and measures to cushion borrowers and financial institutions. We also looked at social public order and human rights, including protection of vulnerable persons and groups, protection of women and girls at risk of domestic abuse, measures to enable learners to continue with studies, enforcement of nationwide curfew, access to justice and decongestion of prisons. The fourth thematic area was access to food, water and other basic commodities. Support services was the fifth thematic area. I wish to remind the House of some of the wins we had. In the Third Report that we tabled on 20th April, 2020, we were able to give recommendations for the continued enforcement of containment measures by the Government at that time. We called for better monitoring of COVID-19 cases at the county levels. Although some of the counties were still protected by some of the containment measures, we were worried on their level of preparedness. We called for the fast-tracking implementation of the Universal Health Care Coverage Scheme and also the release of funds to the counties. By then, Ksh5billion had been pledged, but had not yet been sent to the counties. We were also calling for the quick availing of the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for health workers in the counties. Now we know where they are. With all the investigation we are doing, we now know why there was a problem even at that time. We also called for guidelines by the Government on disposal of masks. We had already started identifying that masks were going to become a big environmental issue at that time. In our Fourth Report, we were able to make interventions to the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) because they had a problem, where all motor The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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