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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kiunjuri",
    "speaker_title": "2395 The Assistant Minister for Water and Irrigation",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity. I stand to support this Vote, because I have no doubt in the ability of the Minister and his Assistant Minister. I have known the Minister for over 12 years. I have seen him run other Ministries. I have no doubt in my mind that he is a Minister with the right Assistant Minister in the Ministry. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also support this Vote because I believe that the staff - the Permanent Secretary and technical officers in the Ministry – have the capacity to deal with the challenges facing this Ministry. I have only a few observations to make. First of all, as usual, this Ministry is under-funded. There is no way you can expect Ministries to perform if you have not given them the tools with which to work. You might demand all that you require but, at the end of the day, it will be just like the way we say when we answer questions: “When funds become available”. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is time we prioritised the Ministries that are crucial in the lives of Kenyans. If you look at what is happening across the country, there is collapsing of buildings. Why do they collapse? It is because we do not have a regulator. If we have a regulator, he has not been sufficiently funded to enable him regulate the building industry.We have engineers in the municipalities and county councils. But are they doing their work? That is why we are urging the Ministry of Public Works to come up with regulations. They can bring a Bill here which will allow them to supervise even those buildings being supervised by engineers from other Ministries because they are custodians of all our buildings. They should be responsible."
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