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    "id": 212053,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the last time when this Motion was being debated, I listened very carefully to the Mover, Mr. Angwenyi, on the proposal to have a New Deal as a special employment programme for this country. He said that the New Deal should have specific budgetary provision to employ 250,000 people in the public sector, and a similar number in the private sector. While I agree that we should have measures to ensure that unemployment is tackled practically, I do not think that putting a special fund called \"the New Deal\" would solve the issue. Indeed, it would be very wrong for us to keep on hiring more people in the public sector, in an economy that cannot, at the moment, afford the kind of wage bill that the July 25, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 23 public is demanding. If anything, the Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation was placated on the premise that we shall have a lean and keen public sector, and a growing and progressive private sector, with the idea that the public sector should service the private sector in the process of employment creation. In that regard, what we need to do in this country is for the Government to invest heavily in the Ministry of Roads and Public Works, so that public works becomes the generator of employment. But we should not create jobs in the Civil Service."
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