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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion and the report of the Ad Hoc Committee of Senate on measures to oversight the response to COVID-19. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as you have been told, this Committee had had - I think I will correct my Chair - 94 sittings and 95 as of yesterday. In the 94 sittings, as you have been told, this Committee did have so many oversights, representation, legislative interventions and initiatives that could not have been possible without the good leadership of our Chairperson. I would like to thank both the previous Chairperson, Sen. Sakaja, who left us in good place and our Vice-Chair, who stepped into his shoes very ably and very well and steered this Committee with distinction. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, a lot of appreciation goes also to your office for the support we have received and our colleagues who have sacrificed. We used to sit a total of five or six times in a week, a couple of times a day. We have met a total almost 143 different stakeholders and processed inputs from those stakeholders. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you will remember the time that we were in lockdown, it was this Committee that was oversighting things like testing, quarantine, isolation centers, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facility functions within the country and human resource for health, drug supplies, infection prevention measures under the thematic area of health which the Chairperson had described. We organized our work in very strategic thematic areas which we felt would have the most impact if we oversighted, represented and if we worked within those strategic areas of focus. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, under the strategic area of focus of heath and health issues, we did so much to ensure that the citizens got the drugs they needed, were treated fairly in their isolation centres where they were put, and their issues were escalated including people that were aboard. This Committee was so instrumental in the airlifting of our citizens from India and from other parts of the world where we highlighted to the authorities and to the Ministry and made sure that we played the ball between those authorities to ensure that our citizens got the dignity and the support they needed to come back home like testing to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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