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    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to make my comments on the Supplementary Estimates that have been tabled. Firstly, allow me to make some few comments on what I think are good points and gains in this Motion. I am happy to hear that in the Ksh650 billion that have been reserved for education, we will secure permanent and pensionable employment of all the 46,000 JSS intern teachers. I am keen to find out, which I did not hear, whether the school feeding programme has been secured in this Supplementary Budget. In the health sector, I am happy to hear that about Ksh3.7 billion has been placed aside to ensure that intern doctors will be absorbed. However, I listened very carefully to the Chairman of Budget and Appropriations Committee when he talked about the SHIF. He said that healthcare will almost be free. I want to find out what this exactly means. The impression we were given and which has been represented by the Executive is that my father who suffers from cancer and takes up bills every three months from our pockets and his savings will not do so when SHIF is implemented. I will be keen to see that the Supplementary Budget will cover all these people with chronic illnesses, including my father who suffers from cancer. In the agricultural area, I am happy to hear that billions of shillings have been set aside for fertiliser. What I have not heard are measures that have been put in place to ensure that the sort of fertiliser scam that was reported in the last financial year will not take place. I want to make a point to support the Vice-Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, in relation to how the Budget and Appropriations Committee and National Treasury engage committees. This House adopted a parliamentary system where committees engage in extensive public participation. Those extensive public participations must mean something as a Member of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives. I agree that in the area of employment, and there has been a lot of agitation by our young people out there, the Gen Zs, on opportunities, governance issues, the ability or inability of 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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