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    "id": 590378,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chelule",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Liza Chelule",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, I thank the Chairperson and the entire membership of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare for the time they took to address the issue raised. However, I have few problems pertaining to the way the programme has been organized. I thank the Government for coming up with a good policy on how to address unemployment among the youth, persons with disabilities and women through the 30 per cent policy of Government tenders going to these three vulnerable groups. The Government has also gone ahead to make arrangements for LPOs or those who have benefited from these tenders to get funding from the Youth Enterprise Fund, but the problem is access to information. There seems to be a very good plan by the Government, but how these people will access information is the issue. The criteria being used by the Youth and Women Enterprise Fund to give out loans for these groups to implement their tenders are so tedious. Most of them cannot access these funds. I request that there should be a one-stop shop at the sub-county level to give proper information to the people; not only on how to implement the tenders, but how they can also register groups, enterprises and companies. It is cumbersome---"
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