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    "id": 1393553,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Atieno Bensuda",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise, on behalf, of Homa Bay County to support this critical Motion on providing a safety net for caregivers of persons with severe disabilities. It has been brought by Hon. Dorothy Ikiara, a very strong member of the Decentralised Funds Accounts Committee. As a colleague, I must support and acknowledge the sensitivity of women on sensitive issues around their environment. No wonder, she has looked into this as a critical area that needs to be addressed by this House through the Motion on providing safety nets for caregivers who take care of those who are really disabled among us. Hon. Temporary Speaker, this Motion requires synergies. Hon. Ikiara has brought up an issue that should make us, legislators, think how various departments or ministries should create synergies to ensure that caregivers are operating in conducive environmental situations besides the stipend that we are advocating that also needs to be given to them. From my experience and observation, caregivers are of various cadres. Along the streets, we find the ones, whom at observation, are themselves vulnerable, some of them are underage and some are malnourished. At the same time, they take care of the disabled. In terms of synergies, I would like this Motion to go a notch higher and ensure that other than the department of social protection, the Ministry of Health comes on board to ensure we have adequate data on the caregivers themselves. County governments have social centres, dispensaries and health centres. Alongside that, we would like to map out a clear registry. As it has been said by other contributors, we need to have data centres on caregivers with adequate data information to give us prior information on who should be a caregiver. We cannot have the underage taking care of those who are disabled simply because we do not have clear policies and because they are relatives of these people. Some of these people are so much disabled to a point that no one wants to come to their aid. This must be clearly spelt out. Still on synergy, the Ministry of Transport should also come on board because the majority of the disabled we see in the streets need actualisation of non-motorised transport. 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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