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    "id": 1459617,
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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "be put together to operate well. In the overlapping functions of water or roads sectors, there are a lot of internal conflicts that pose many challenges to these sectors. Looking at the First Schedule on the National Referral and Specialised Services and the Curative and Reproductive Maternal Neonatal Child and Adolescent Health, we have a very serious crisis of adolescents. This is one thing we need to look at clearly and see how we can support schools to ensure we have wellness and life skills in schools that help adolescents faced with a lot of challenges like early pregnancies and many other issues. We need to think through that. Agriculture is the main pillar for rebuilding our country. We have to do this deliberately. We must ensure that we give young people incentives to engage in agriculture and enable them import value addition machineries duty free, as long as they prove that these machines will add value and they will utilise idle land. If we do not do that, we will be lying to our young people that we have white collar jobs yet we do not. There is a way we can create different incentives to create more skills. Vote R1135 is about Film Development Services and Youth Empowerment Services. This is one thing that we need to emphasise on. How do we create incentives so that we can ensure young people create jobs for themselves? They are very good in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and we need to find ways to support them having in mind that most of them are still looking for jobs. We therefore cannot push them into the bracket of forcing them to buy things as they are. I thought we shall reflect, as Members, on the crisis that we went through and ask ourselves how we can come back with dignity and make Kenyans believe that we can pass a good Budget that can be trusted and monitored. How do we ensure that we spend our monies well? As much as we allocate monies for roads and other sectors, as we always do, we must go beyond that. We must agree to have most of our highways on a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement. This will help us deal with the issue of roads once and for all. By doing that, we will be assured of quality roads. It will also save some money for other things like paying debt. Vote R1176 talks about the amount required in the year ending 30th June 2025 for current expenses of the State Department for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development. The Women Enterprise Fund got lost somewhere. If we compare where we were in the last 10 years and now, we will not understand whether women can still continue borrowing from the same Fund. We need to request the President to restore the Fund. It should be made in a way that women can apply for funds digitally. The Fund should be administered through meeting the women one-on- one in their groups and cheques issued to them. That will ensure that we can follow up what the women are doing with the money as opposed to digitising the whole process with no way of telling who the beneficiary is, how the country is benefiting, and whether we are gaining or losing. On health, I know that community health workers are all waiting to see what happens to them now that we have ensured that intern doctors have been hired. It is the same case for the Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers who are seeking to be employed. I also want us to focus on Universal Health Care coverage. I know many people are fighting the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) or National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). It is up to us to decide the health insurance that is best for every Kenyan. It is important for us to stop wastage. Let us identify what is termed as waste. Waste is the small things we do without knowing that we are wasting. When we put all of them together, we find that we have wasted finances. In the education sector, parents need to look at how the new model of funding universities works. Parents have to understand how each band works. In the new funding model, an orphan is 95 per cent supported, so what he or she pays is very little but many parents do not understand. 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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