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    "content": "If I could mention two or three programmes that we funded last year, which is not clear where they were targeted, one would be the sanitary towels. We have spoken before about the matter of the girl-child and the matter of having sanitary towels provided to girls so that they can continue with their education and therefore do not skip school during their periods. If you look at the amount we gave last year and you look at the country, it is not very clear which schools, counties and areas the sanitary pads were disbursed and what is increasingly the capacity of girls to go to school as a result of this intervention. Looking at another programme that we had concerning the leasing of police vehicles, we did put aside a huge budget for leasing of police vehicles. In the same year, we have the highest rate of insecurity. This does not seem to add up. I would urge this House to start adding up what we give in figures and what is happening on the ground. In Nyeri County, we have seen some new vehicles. Whether this has led to increased security, I am not sure. We need to check the distribution of the things that we give in the Budget process and to also check that security improves in our country. We have in this year given huge amount of money to the security programme. This is the route that many African countries have taken to continuously give huge amounts of money to security without getting the security they are funding. I hope that when we do the end of the financial year review, we will ask ourselves whether the amount of money we give to security is being used for security. If you look at the Higher Education Loans Board programme, which many of us are here courtesy of it, this particular fund was expanded to cover the tertiary institutions (TIVET). It is not very clear as to whether sufficient information has gone out to our young people who are in TIVET institutions to apply for their loans. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we continue improving our Budget process, looking at whether the country is connecting programmes, Budgets and transformation of Kenyans lives and improved service delivery, these are the questions we will be looking at. I am happy to serve as a member of Jubilee Administration. Our manifesto was very clear on many strategic interventions on food security, security, youth programmes and a lot of these matters have been factored in the Budget. On our flagship project on maternal health, we continue seeing very good figures of mothers who now deliver in hospitals as a result of which we have less maternal mortality. These are measures we hope will continue to be supported and funded in our Budget and we will continue to deliver results. I am glad that the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) has sufficient money in this year’s Budget. The Budget for the PSC allows us to expand and go into the question of the library. It is important as the first bicameral legislature of our country, sufficient documentation is put in place on what is going on in the processes that we have in terms of bicameralism. We have an amendment from the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, on page 19; the funds we propose to reallocate from Judiciary are not Kshs826 million but rather Kshs1.76 billion. This amount will be reallocated. In the Budget Policy Statement, the Judiciary was allocated 17 billion. In the Estimates we had 18.7, billion meaning there is still a fair amount of scope of what the Judiciary can do with the increased funding. This is a justice chain. Some of the money that will be reallocated from the Bomet and Lodwar courts will go to the office of the Attorney 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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