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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to congratulate Hon. Mwalimu Ikiara for bringing this important matter for consideration by the House. She is pricking our conscience as a nation for us to consider the least among us in society. The good book teaches that whatsoever you do to the least of brothers, you do unto me. What she is doing here is not primarily for the caregivers but for the Kenyans living with severe disabilities. I stand to support. In my contribution, I shall also refer to some Bills that might be useful to Hon. Ikiara when she decides to promote this Motion into a Bill. By providing a stipend for the caregivers, who are taking care of the severely disabled in this country, we are doing a number of things including giving assurance for better quality care for these persons. We are also making sure that we are recognising the efforts of these individuals who undertake the work that not every other individual would voluntarily do. We are also promoting social inclusivity. This job is normally relegated to the people who have been demoted to the lowest cadre of the society to a point where we discriminate them. We recognise that there is ground norm that allows and provides for fair remuneration for anybody who undertakes any responsibility, especially if they are assigning some good hours to it. If you allow me, I request that the Mover is not obstructed from your vision so that she takes the notes. The big build that I would like to put to this is the consideration of whether we would want to move towards being a welfare State. If you look at the Order Paper, you realise that later on in our proceedings, we shall be looking at a Motion by Hon. Majimbo Kalasinga. The Motion seeks to review the eligibility age for enrolment of older members of the society to the Inua Jamii Cash Programme. It begs the questions; does our Ksh4 trillion economy capable of supporting all the safety net programmes that we are loading onto our Budget? This is a critical question that we ought to ask ourselves. If we ask this question in context of this Motion that has been brought by Hon. Dorothy Ikiara, we shall find that a stipend can only be a short-term measure to this problem. The long-term response ought to be the systems, programmes and institutions that can take better care of our people living with severe disability. With this, we shall formalise the whole arrangement of taking care of our people with disability so that the burden is not relegated to family members who do not have jobs. My point is that while this is an extremely good proposal, it can only serve on the short-term. This country shall be called upon to think about providing policies, legislation, frameworks, structures, the physical brick and mortar institutions that shall take care of our 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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