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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Mutinda",
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    "content": "country banned the single use of plastic. However, as we speak and as the Senator puts it, there needs to be deeper clarification as far as the single use of plastic is concerned. To be more specific, the agricultural industry is still using the plastic seedling bags instead of the alternatives in the market; the non-woven bags that replaced the single plastic use. When the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) keeps on giving extensions and authorising institutions to use this single-plastics use, at what point do we put off the issue of single plastic use? Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the matter of SHA employees, a few weeks ago, the Clerk allowed the SHA team to come to Parliament to assist us and other staff register. Personally, the staff that I met were very young people. As Sen. (Dr.) Boni put it, if they cannot be absorbed within the SHA system because the numbers available are too minimal, then where do we expect these young people with very young families to go? From where we sit, yes, SHA is working. However, for it to even continue working better, we need to ensure that the staff from NHIF are fully absorbed within the system. Where do we expect these young people to go? This big and best SHA system that we have is continuing to work even though it has had some challenges. How do we ensure maximum output if we do not absorb these young people who have been working with NHIF? As a Member of the Standing Committee on Health, we will take keen interest in ensuring that the issue is addressed, just like we have taken care of other issues such as the one concerning the UHC employees. We have pushed and as we speak, the budget is over Kshs 4 billion. We have also pushed for the doctors’ arrears of Kshs1.7 billion; the Community Health Promoters (CHP) funds and many others that have allocations now."
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