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    "content": "General, Department of Justice for recruitment of additional staff, some of who will be sent to the counties. There will also be funding for computerization of the registries in the Attorney General’s Department therefore availing information at the shortest time possible. There has emerged the question of the cost of courts and especially the cost of the High Court station. We have it pegged at 350 million for the High Court station. The Committee of Justice and Legal Affairs will look at whether the amount is sufficient for the High Court station. If that figure is high, downgrading of the figure will be done by the Committee. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the question of youth, we do have some increased funding for the National Youth Service (NYS). Although we accepted the recommendation to return the Kshs2 billion to the National Intelligence Service (NIS), we still need to look for funding in the Supplementary Budget to fund the Foreign Affairs embassies in Kampala, Doha and Dubai. In Doha and Dubai we export some of the technical skills from our country. Where we can get jobs around the globe, those measures will be supported because unemployment is among the biggest problems in Kenya. I hope that in the Supplementary Budget we can have funding allocated to the embassies in Doha and Qatar even though they cannot be funded at this time. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I hope that this particular House will find it in their favour to find the Kshs3.74 billion that should go to Level 5 hospitals. Health and devolution of health has remained a very thorny subject in our country. We should have spent more time on this issue, but as we speak, I am urging that the House still finds the Kshs.3.74 billion that should go to Level 5 hospitals, the Nyeri Provincial General Hospital included in this category. Lastly, as I finalize and looking at the time that has ran out, is the question of wastage and corruption. In these days of national dialogue, it is going to be important that this House also gets into a dialogue on corruption and wastage. We cannot develop as a country for as long as we pass a budget of Kshs.1.7 trillion, 30 per cent of which goes into corruption. One of these days and led by our Chairperson and the Budget and Appropriations Committee, we have to undertake a discussion on corruption, wastage and on use of the funds in our country efficiently. Thank you for the opportunity and I support the Report of the Committee and do urge that we see good implementation by the Government agencies, parastatals and semi-autonomous Government agencies and that indeed the country does grow in the Financial Year 2014/2015 as is expected by this Budget. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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