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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am now dealing with (b); about nurses. The one of yesterday has been put on the Order Paper because you had directed that today Senators be allowed to ventilate on it and that is (a). I am just presenting (b). They have asked me to draw the attention of the Senate to the following:- 1. That they are aware that the President has issued an executive directive that devolution should take place with effect from 1st July, 2013. While they support devolution, they oppose the rushed process of transferring to the county governments the personnel emoluments of nurses. 2. Whereas they support devolution of certain functions in the health sector which may be ready for devolution such as utilization for infrastructure development, procurement of equipment and supplies, utilization of funds raised through cost- sharing and certain human resource functions such as staffing, internal transfer of nurses within the county and settlement of disciplinary cases that may affect nurses working within the county; that they presented this case on 4th July, 2013 to the Cabinet Secretary responsible for the department of health through a memorandum in a meeting which was held between them and the Cabinet Secretary on the same day, but they regret that up to now, they have received no response. They are further alerting us that this issue is not pending before any court of law, constitutional or any other legal body. Therefore, they humbly pray as follows:- THAT, the Senate intervenes to facilitate the reversal of the said transfer of personnel emoluments to county governments until such a time when the county governments shall be capable to take this function from the national government and until county governments fulfill the requirements of the County Government Act of 2012 and the Transition to Devolved Government Act, 2012. Thank you."
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