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    "content": "We will work hand in hand to ensure that we create more employment opportunities. We know that, of late, many Kenyans are suffering while this is a sector that used to empower many. I hope we can look at it again. We have many from the counties who have gone to the Galilee Institute for different training and we do hope the training they have gone through and the skills they have acquired will be implemented in their counties. I also hope the Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and the Heath Committees will visit the institution which has fantastic capacity building that can help counties to transform this agenda. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other agenda that is critical is the issue of sustained investment in social services for the welfare of Kenyans. This is a sector that concerns healthcare and deserves scaling up social safety nets, empowering the youth, women and persons with disability and this is where we also have so many funds that have been created at the national and the county governments. When you look at these funds - I hope that as we now interrogate this policy - we shall be able to look at how we can enhance some of these funds so that they can transform lives as we thought. You find that the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) has a bursary scheme, the governors also have a bursary scheme and I know that the President has his own bursary scheme. I think if we bring that together, we will be able to have a better fund that can be given to needy children who will be able to pursue education from Form One to the University as opposed to giving out money based on how you supported the Member of Parliament. I think it is time we came out as Kenyans and realized that we collect all these monies from our revenue. This money belongs to Kenyan taxpayers and they would want to see services being given to all. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we now have the Affirmative Action Fund for women that is also going to deal with the issue of bursary. Then we ask ourselves why it is that we still have children in constituencies who are unable to go to school and yet they got 300 or 400 marks in the KCPE results. This is something that we need to investigate. When we talk of health - I want this Senate to now look critically at health as a devolved function - it is time we got back and sat down with the Cabinet Secretary of Health Dr. Cleophas Mailu and came up with clear proposals. As we speak, most of the doctors have now left. We need to have key hospitals in counties where doctors can be retained through incentives. This is something we can work with the national Government. For example, if there is a surgeon at the county level and the sub district hospital is in need of one, they can call on that doctor at the county to go to the sub district hospital and assist. This is something we must put in place so that the doctors and nurses who are there are able to be contained and be given better packages. This Senate should come up with that policy to ensure it works. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we now have a CDF which is supposed to deal with national functions. We also need to ask ourselves whether really this function goes to a county. They also need to re-look at their policies. We do not need to continue building classrooms without rationalizing the number of teachers. That is why year in, year out, we are having challenges of teachers because every Member of Parliament who comes in does not want to enhance the facilities that he or she got in their constituency; instead, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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