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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Thika Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alice Ng’ang’a",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I want to support the Motion on the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee regarding the 2023/2024 Budget Estimates. My Committee, is the only one that deals with the vulnerable groups like the elderly, less privileged in the society, children, street children, youth, and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). When all Departmental Committees visited the Budget and Appropriations Committee, I presented the Budget Estimates after scrutinising and deliberating on the Report. The money which is allocated to the Cash Transfer Programme for the elderly needs to be increased. It was last transferred in January and yet the elderly needed it for medication. Once the cash flow is delayed, the elderly face many problems. I am happy Ksh500 million has been added to the kitty. It is not enough. We have money constraints but in future, we need to audit the Cash Transfer Programme which started in 2017. There are many elderly people who have reached that age but have not yet been enrolled into this Programme. We need to do that because we need to treat everybody equally. When we went to do the presentation, we said that we need to look into it. Before we do that, we also need to audit to establish whether all beneficiaries are still alive. Maybe some of them passed on but nobody has ever realised that. So, we need to audit the entire Programme and include the ones who are still missing out. We also know that there are challenges. As the elderly go to collect their money, they suffer a lot. Maybe, even the telephone number that they are using currently is not the same one that they registered with. It is also a challenge to move from their houses to collect the money. We need to audit this Programme and see what is best, so that we can help our elderly and give them dignity as they are aging. We should take good care of them because they also took care of us when we were young. Another matter that arose in the Budget Estimates is the youth factor. We need to have more youth hubs at the constituency level. They need to be equipped with ICT. I can see the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation. Our youth can create jobs for themselves. The youth hubs will enable them to study and write their thesis using those computers. There are too many young men and women who are content creators. They need to be promoted. The youth centres need to be renovated. Some need to be built so that all our youth across the country can be taken care of. The youth form a huge part The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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