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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Opiyo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odhiambo Opiyo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was saying that once this Motion goes through, we should charge our Implementation Committee to follow up and find out whether the Government is listening to the legislative voice of this Parliament. Apart from encouraging children to go to school, we have other parameters of measuring success in education that we must always try to maintain. All these parameters come with a cost. We have been talking about Vision 2030, universal education and so on. Unless this Government takes a conscious step to ensure that there is money available for implementation of these programmes, we will not go anywhere. One thing that should be of importance to the House and the country is the timely disbursement of these grants to schools. I will give an example. You will find that for this term, say, this week or last week I was told that money was rolling out of schools and yet it is only a few weeks to the closing of schools. You wonder which programmes these are that this money is supposed to facilitate when schools have been closed. The head teachers are frustrated and so are the parents. The children are even more frustrated by the delay in the disbursement of these funds. This Motion ought to have included a clause that compels the Government and, indeed, the Minister for Education to disburse these funds a week before or on the date of opening schools so that these monies are used for the intended purposes for which they are availed. This House is charged with the responsibility of appropriating monies to all Government agencies and, indeed, to the Ministry of Education. Well, if the delay is caused by the Treasury then we should have a written commitment from Treasury The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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