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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Onyancha",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Onyancha",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, many of the people who retire after the age of 60 or 65 years earn pensions which were based on salaries which were very low at that particular point in time. That is the time when there is an onset of disease and poverty. As the Minister for Health considers that social pillar, he should give priority to old age poverty where medical cover is more required than among the youth and if there is to be any prioritization, that these people get looked at as the first priority. Support from the Government for missionary hospitals - since it is the quest of the Government to give free medical cover and free treatment - should be encouraged within the capacity of the Ministry and the Government, especially in provision of drugs. I know that there are initiatives and memoranda which are signed within the Government and those hospitals for support but the process of doing that and being included is rather lengthy and so it needs to be looked into again so that full benefits can reach mwananchi. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I now want to turn to the Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF) and the Women Enterprise Development Fund (WEDF) which are funds which are provided by Treasury. We find that in certain districts there is an over requirement of those funds and in others there is lack of uptake. It would be nice for us to be able to assess which districts do not need these funds so that we can be able to transfer them to districts like mine which need them because there is no need for Government funds to lie idle if people are not able to use them. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in conclusion as I support this Bill, I wish to just go back to issues which were raised earlier and just raise them again. There is need for reconciliation between the funds that are provided by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and our budgetary allocation because one of the privileges and probably rightly, that this Minister is enjoying is the confidence of the people and Parliament and we want that to continue. We need this reconciliation so that we can check if there are any excess funds so that we reallocate them to the needy causes. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, lastly, the Cash Transfer Fund for the aged needs to be quickly spread across the country to all districts and not the pilot districts which have already been benefitting for the last three or four years. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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