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    "id": 1298949,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I thank the House for passing this Bill. As a House, we have passed four important health Bills in this Sitting, as we are about to go on recess on Thursday. As you are aware, there is a huge debate in the country because health was devolved under the 2010 Constitution. People are asking themselves whether it is right to devolve health functions. Kenyans ask themselves whether we made the right decisions when we enacted the Constitution by devolving health to the counties. This is because most of our health facilities are not working and functioning at the county level. You know that health care is one of the most important things for any government, whether it is a county or national government. These new Bills that we have just passed and will be assented to shortly will revolutionise our country's health sector. You will not know the importance of health until you become sick. When you get ill is when you realise how important it is to be healthy. We have passed many Bills in this House on healthcare, education, Information Communication and Technology (ICT), and many other areas. I ask this House to develop a mechanism to assess the implementation of those Acts after they are assented to ascertain whether they are being implemented for the benefit of the people of Kenya. I thank the Leader of the Majority Party. He has done a good job for the last six months. The first six months, he was settling down. He was doing a lot of politics, but he has done a good job in the last six months. If he continues with this trend, the future looks bright for him. Maybe he will be my running-mate in a few elections to come. Hon. Temporary Speaker, this House has a Committee on Implementation. This Committee must make sure that the Bills we pass in this House are implemented for the benefit of the people of this county, so that we do not just give the Executive a blank cheque that says: “We have passed these Bills; go implement them the way you want,” and then they implement what they want and leave out what they do not want. They implement the ones that favour them and leave those that do not. I give this task to the Committee on Implementation to ensure these Bills are implemented. With those few remarks, I thank the House for passing the Bills. 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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