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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. So when it comes to tourism that is very critical. Again the other issue, which has been really an issue across the board is the issue of climate change. When the Vice President, Al Gore, started speaking about climate change, many people thought about it as being farfetched. We did not think that we would get to a time when we can actually see the ravages of climate change. Now we are. The weather pattern has been completely affected across the board. People do not know really when it will rain. The traditional weather patterns have changed. Drought in many areas. So it was very important for the administration to have gone into place to rehabilitate wells, to look at water pans and to look at Arid and Semi-Arid Areas (ASALs) and how this can be helped. A total of Kshs2.5 billion for flood control was also injected campaigning for the Green Kenya Campaign, which really involves planting of more trees, improving the tree cover across the country so that, at the end of the day, it becomes very imperative. It is through that same rain and water and trees that we can actually enhance the weather patterns. I know as Kenyans we have engaged very stringently in the issues of climate change. The policies which are coming out as a result of this, really need to be put into place so that at the end of the day we are able to really look at this in total. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as we know, is always a driver. It is very key and important to address the GDP of a country. Recording an increase of 10.1 per cent. I listen to Sen. Were when she was making her submissions. That was very good. This is a double digit growth that we hoped it would to come. Maybe to just go into ramifications and ways of ensuring trickle down of the same. He talked about money in the pocket. Yes we have a double digit GDP which is fantastic, it raises our profile as a country. Somehow along the line, probably the growth of these medium and small and micro and micro enterprises would help in the long run to get us to a place where this economy can grow and be felt more and more within the households and the various sectors. At the end of the day, this trajectory can actually be across the board. Again we have the third stimulus package which focus on key productive and service sectors across the board; agriculture, health, education, drought response policy. All these really addressing the key issues and the projection for this first term intervention and the second term intervention, for example, into the sugar sector which is again is a sector really relied on in western Kenya are very important. The third intervention was on coffee. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the third intervention was on coffee. You will realise that over time, we are trying as much as possible to really take it to the agricultural sector because 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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