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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is an honour to be back on this Dispatch again. Through your honour, I beg to move that the Creative Economy Support Bill (Senate Bill No.30 of 2024), be now read a Second Time. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is a big honour to move this Bill, because the creative economy is an economy that has been very elusive to our country. It is one of the economies that is greatly misunderstood and yet got the biggest opportunities for our youth as far as I am concerned. Indeed, the needs of the persons in the creative economy have traditionally been taken aback in terms of priorities of the state, if you think about it, in terms of the structure of the state support that has been there. To begin with, the creative economy is housed in the Ministry of Sports and Culture, when we know that the creative economy is a serious case for business. If you think about all the clusters that construe the creative economy they include music, creative arts, publishing books, performing arts – the list goes on and on. We have seen an increasing misguided priority by the state, starting from how the state understands the creative. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this a Bill seeks to have us think about the creative economy as a place to leverage, not just the human creativity that makes it a question for culture, entertainment or decorative elements of facets in different economies that we have in the country, but a place for innovation and a place for ideation that can contribute to economic development. What I am talking about here is whether there is a possibility of the creative economy bringing us a proper and viable investment. Is there commercial viability in the broader and the narrow aspect of the creative economy? This is what this Bill seeks to create an understanding for us in Government and allowing the creative economy to grow into an industrial sector that it should be, not the amorphous sector that is there currently. This Bill is essentially rethinking the idea of policy because what is lacking in the creative economy is what I will call industrial policy, whereby creatives themselves do 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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