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    "id": 151166,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kenneth",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Planning, National Development andVision 2030",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Kenneth",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First of all, the hon. Members who spoke yesterday and the hon. Members who have spoken today have supported that we adopt the Economic Survey Paper, 2009. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Economic Survey Paper, 2009, was baring the facts as they are, and the state in which we are. It is important for all hon. Members to appreciate the state of affairs of our economy. Therefore, the point that I emphasized yesterday, and the point that remains very critical up to today, is that we need to jumpstart our economy! We cannot sustain growth; we cannot achieve Vision 2030 and we will not even be able to develop the Medium Term Plan to proper development, unless a stimulus package is repackaged in our Budget and the industries that I spoke about yesterday were, indeed, revamped. One of the issues that hon. Members brought up yesterday is that one way of revamping the economy is to see an increase in the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). Our Ministry is in the forefront to see to it that the CDF is increased from the current 2.5 per cent to a bigger percentage to allow some of the taxes that are collected to go right to the grass roots. So, it is important to note that even the increase in the CDF allocation is a stimulus in itself, so that each constituency can have more money for various sectors. The second thing is that hon. Millie Odhiambo raised issues on child labor statistics and sexual offences; to be de-segregated by sex, and the incorporation of contribution by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) into the economic survey. I want to assure this House that those items will be incorporated in the economic survey."
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