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    "id": 561841,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Tuya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. In support of this Bill, I wish to join my colleagues in congratulating Hon. Sakaja for helping us to move from mere rhetoric to actualising the need to bring our young people into the mainstream development agenda of this country. A lot has been said in the talk about creating job opportunities for our young people, but this Bill which seeks to establish a Youth Employment Authority, is what will get us to that vision which is held by both young people and the leadership of this country. When you look at the object of this Bill, it addresses critical issues. Key in these issues is the establishment of a database for all youths who are seeking job opportunities. The Bill seeks to incorporate this strategy, not just at the national level, but within our county governments. The creation of a database which will be open for all to see and accessible by all the youths will ensure that the question of inequity and lack of diversity, which has become a chronic problem in providing job opportunities for our young people, will become a thing of the past. According to the spirit and letter of the Bill, this database will ensure that every young person who will be seeking a job will put their details in this database. The database then will become the point of reference to any employer, be it private, county governments or the national Government when a job opportunity will arise. Clause 6 of the Bill speaks to mandatory registration. In line with Article 55(c) of the Constitution, the Bill seeks to make the registration of the youth who will be seeking employment mandatory. It also mandates all the agencies even in the private sector to make sure that this is where they go to when they are recruiting. This will outlaw the excuse which we often hear directed at the young people that they lack experience. We often hear the excuse given that our young people do not have the necessary credentials. This database will deal with that aspect. It will be open for all to see that we have very resourceful young people in this country with the requisite job requirements to be taken on board. In Clause 9, under the functions of the Authority, there is a requirement for advertising job vacancies in a way that will reach every young person in this country to make sure that they take advantage of the job opportunities. When this Bill becomes law, we hope that implementation of its provisions will be expedited. Noting that it touches on the county governments, it is one of those Bills under which we will ask our friends in the Senate to wake up and push it through within a short time. We need to actualise this law immediately in terms of implementation."
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