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    "id": 1473467,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mutua",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mutemi Mutua",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. In terms of equitable access to social protection, there is a system that has been working and we can always improve on it. We go to the ground using the Government system and we can identify those who deserve to be in the system in terms of age, disability and very poor vulnerable families. We put them on the list, they go through the criteria and they are onboarded. When I served as the governor of Machakos County, the issue of older citizens never receiving their monies kept on coming all the time. It is an ongoing system of onboarding. In terms of providing the list to you, this House and the Parliament of Kenya passed a law on data protection that does not allow us to provide private information about people's names and where they are to you. However, as MPs and Senators, if you have identified individuals in your county that you believe have been left out or not been covered, kindly send me that list and we shall double-check to see whether they have been covered. We will ensure that they are covered if they need to be. We cannot assume that we know everything on the ground. Secondly, we also have cases that we are dealing with; this is whereby some of our older citizens pass on to glory and they are no longer here. Maybe their caregivers The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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