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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I also think that we should look at the policy regarding matters of health so that we can put further emphasize on primary health care and education. We are spending a lot of money on health due to lack of knowledge in our population. This can only be done if we go back to primary health care and put some weight on it. Some of the biggest challenges we have now on health are things to do with lifestyle, climate change, toxic environment and so on. We need to be serious in addressing these challenges because they are soon going to pose serious challenges. Therefore, we must be very factual and look for information about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). We know the controversies surrounding these GMOs. We know that this is one of the areas that we will be concerned about in terms of health more particularly because nowadays, there is an increasing amount of cancer cases in our country. All other unverified information suggests that cancer might be coming from the Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Factual information must be presented so that we deal with that very easily. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the areas of cash transfers, I am aware that the Government is currently transferring some cash to the vulnerable groups; the elderly, people living with disabilities and other groups. However, there are challenges. There are signs of corruption coming in to deny vulnerable groups their rightful and constitutional share which we have given them. We need to have very stringent Acts of Parliament to guide and identify the vulnerable groups in our society and document them so that we know who they actually are, where they are and what sort of need they have. As it stands at the moment, this is an area that is challenging. This is because, even as we speak now, we lose a lot of money meant for the vulnerable groups in our society. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have our foreign missions abroad. For a very long time and up to today, the foreign missions have served as residences for Kenyans who represent us abroad. I would expect that as a nation that is preparing itself to play a role in the international arena, we should use our embassies to play a much more significant role. These should be centres of consultation and centres where we discuss ideas with our foreign partners. They should be in permanent areas. In fact, as it stands at the moment, our embassies are in rented premises. I see no reason why our embassies should not be properties of this country abroad because we would want them to deal with permanent issues. Madam Temporary Speaker, in this country, we have products like tea which does not go anywhere yet we have embassies abroad which do nothing else other than to receive visitors. The embassies have no trade missions within them that deal with commodities like tea and coffee and which can get an appropriate trade environment that is commensurate to give us the true prices for commodities in this country. Our embassies should play a much more significant role than they are playing at the moment in order to secure our position as a developing economy that is prospering robustly as the President said. Madam Temporary Speaker, matters of national security are very significant. It will be much more significant as we continue to prosper because we will need to protect our people and our properties. Therefore, national security is of concern. In the last few years, this and previous governments have faced the security issue by simply recruiting The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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