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    "content": "primary caregiver to the old people. For those of us like other hon. Members, people my age and myself who may have the fortune of having their parents still alive, we know that it is our primary responsibility to take care of our parents. However, it would be good to note that in the coming years and with the generations that we are bringing up, our children, for our generation, we know that we have to take care of our own insurance arrangements because we do not know how these children are coming up. Looking at 2025, 2030 or 2040, if we will still be there, the generation that is coming up is more westernized and probably not like our generation. It would be very useful to make practical suggestions that would help someone know that if you stay with your mother or if you can prove that you are taking care of your father, then you get a certain benefit from the State. This is a practical way that will ensure that a child who goes to live in Nairobi and I am retired back in Garsen, will have a desire to try and take care of me. This is where, as a practical measure, I am proposing that any family unit that will prove that apart from being husband, wife and children, they are also taking care of the parents, should have a clear tax incentive. I am thinking of tax relief measures that should be given to such families that are able to declare and show practically to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) that, in fact, we always transfer money to our parents and we are practically taking care of them. This would create a sense of responsibility in a practical manner. The Government can even be able to account, in a practical manner, how much money is transferred by way of support to the aged, just the same way we account for the monies sent from the diaspora. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think in general, this is a good policy and without belabouring what other Members have already said, I want to give my wholehearted support to this policy. I would like to congratulate the Minister again for thinking about it. I would also like to support Mr. Affey who said that the Bill should be brought here. We need a Bill that will create some of these things that we are suggesting in a practical manner, so that it becomes law. We can then be able to say that 40-plus years after Independence, we have been able to take care of one of our vulnerable segment of society. Therefore, we are developing. I beg to support."
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