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    "content": "On the implementation of the managed equipment services – the equipment that has been leased by the Government to referral hospitals – we have realised that it has taken long and we urge the Ministry to hasten, so that the targets that have been set can be achieved. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to look at the State Department of Livestock. Livestock is part of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and it accounts for nearly 13 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). We felt that the reduction of the vote of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries from Kshs7.1 billion last year to Kshs6.8 billion next financial year is likely to hamper the performance of the Ministry in terms of value addition, establishment of livestock disease-free zones and fast-tracking modernisation of the meat processing plants and so forth. Therefore, we recommend that the Treasury should consider increasing the allocation to that Ministry. In the Judiciary, we have looked at a number of recommendations that are there regarding the fast-tracking of completion of courts which have been under construction for a long time because there are quite a number in a number of counties. At the same time, we have also recommended that the Government synchronises the establishment of county offices for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). In this BPS, there are plans to establish 15 county offices for the DPP. We think they should be synchronised with the additional new courts that are coming up, so that the entire justice system works together in tandem. Regarding the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), we also raised concerns about eight million new voters who need to be registered in the next year before the election but the amount of money allocated for registration of voters is not adequate. We have recommended here that Treasury must consider allocating more resources, so that more people can be registered. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the issue of leasing of police motor vehicles and the police housing is a matter that has been raised on the Floor of this House before and in Parliament generally for a long time. Our police forces do not have adequate housing. Nearly 20,000 or 30,000 police officers are not properly housed. Our main concern is that although Parliament votes substantial amounts of money for security, the money is domiciled under the Office of the President. We have realised that the money is rarely released for construction of houses and so forth. So, we are recommending that the leasing of motor vehicles by the police and the housing for the police be domiciled under the National Police Service Commission (NPSC), so that we can fast-track the whole process of efficiency in the police service. We have recommended that the Treasury together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade need to come up with a policy to guide capital expenditure in foreign missions in the context of buying houses and offices as opposed to rentals where the Government is currently paying exorbitant amounts of money on rental properties. Lastly on this item is the issue of demand for teachers. There is a shortage of nearly 100,000 teachers in the schools in this country yet there is no provision for recruitment of additional teachers. We have recommended to the Treasury that they should provide funding to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to recruit at least The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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