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    "id": 448569,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "My worries are that we are setting up yet another authority. We are in a year in which the wage bill is a major concern. I had wished as this debate was initiated that we got this authority as an appendage to an existing institution until it builds up sufficiently and then we can pluck it off. The danger with this kind of setting-up is that supply creates demand. As an institution, it will be filled. There will be need to increase employment and we will end up with a bloated institution. None of what we have now will indicate what type of institution we should have. My worry here is that we are going to end up with a huge parastatal. The sentiments expressed by my colleagues in the House are in terms of how this will bring order and diversify the education qualifications settings. One additional comment I would like to make is that we tend to be fascinated with the pay structures leading to qualifications. I think pay should be related to capacity to deliver; whether you have a Masters Degree or a PhD that might influence an entry level. Growth over time must entirely be related to capacity. At the same time, I hope that an institution of this nature will not be used to provide preferential treatment, for example, to the home universities over foreign ones, or to discriminate against degrees from a particular area and so on. We used to have those kinds of problems relating to qualifications from certain countries. This is beginning to emerge within the community as well, where there is a feeling that if you do not qualify from Kenya, anything else out there does not cut it. I hope that, that kind of confidence will, probably, be brought back when we have an institution of this kind. It needs to get back and work properly. I support the Bill. 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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