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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Martha Wangari",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. Moreover, I want to thank the Committee. I wanted to speak earlier to give a background of the Bill as the Mover of the Bill. In addition, I thank the Chair of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare because it has been a long process to even get here. Moreover, we had dealt with the Committee before it was reconstituted and now after it was reconstituted. However, the basic explanation is that more and more people are adopting children nowadays. There are many reasons why that is happening. I know most of us have someone who has adopted a child and if you get a child through surrogacy, by law, you still have to adopt it. The argument was that if you adopt even a six-month old baby, you do not get any leave at all by law. That is discrimination depending on and looking at Article 53 of the Constitution on the rights of the child and also Section 157 of the Children Act. Therefore, this amendment is to correct that. My desire was to get three months to equal with the biological birthing. However, during public participation of this Bill, the employers also made their case and said that three months is a lot and we scaled it back to one month. Therefore, I want to thank the Committee for going out and taking public views. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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