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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to appreciate the contributions that have been made by my colleagues. I will only touch on a few because they have been wonderful contributions. Part of them have been challenges to those of us who are in the delegations to use the opportunities very well. Beyond being ambassadors of this House and the nation, I note what Mr. Bahari said about the membership. I only want him to know that as a delegation, we have already approached the Speaker on expansion of this delegation. The sectors are very wide; we have economic sector, environmental sector, climate change and biodiversity as have been articulated by the Minister. We also have the social and environment sector and the big area of economic development and trade issues. Two members in a delegation can only bring a report here and send the same to the Committees. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as a committee, we have also ensured that we send the reports to the other committees. We hope they can utilize them. I would like to appreciate the comments that have been made by my colleagues. Prof. Ongeri has mentioned a fair share of the climate change issues and biodiversity and the importance of UNEP in this country. It is true that we must make our universities take it very seriously that they are the only ones in the continent hosting such headquarter and that they should be very proactive. We should show leadership in this. As I mentioned, we did appreciate as a committee, the fact that when we chose to host the Continental Summit on Climate Change, the Head of State accepted to open the function and the Prime Minister closed it. On top of that, we also had Members of the Cabinet and Members of Parliament attending. This was very important in selling the country. These sessions help us build ourselves as a nation and put us in a stronger position that we are in currently as far as the environment in the continent is concerned. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank Mr. Ruteere for touching on the Report on the youth. The issue of the youth is global. Sometimes, we look at it in a very closed manner. We imagine that it is only the youth in Kenya who are unemployed, agitating and looking for space and their rights. However, out of the research and reports presented by the relevant committee, it came out very clearly that this is a global issue and we must have a global agenda to address the issues of youth. This intermarries with the other issue of opening up development and investments in the ACP countries because as we increase investment, we increase job opportunities. This then increases opportunities for the youth and so forth. These are areas we will continue to endevour in, as we represent this august House in the ACP-EU-Joint Parliamentary Assembly. With those remarks, I beg to move."
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