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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, he was the Chairperson of the Select Committee on COVID-19. Sorry for that mix-up. We have seen that nurses who are frontline workers, want to go on strike. I want to challenge Sen. Sakaja to try to assist us by providing leadership on this labour dispute that we are heading to, especially on the payment of risk allowances. As we talk today, more senior doctors who have taken years to train are dying because of COVID-19. More doctors and nurses are complaining for lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and risk allowances. I want the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare to rise up to the occasion and fight for the risk allowances. Even the police who are also implementing the containment measures must be given risk allowance. Anybody who is on the frontline of providing essential services in the fight against COVID-19 must be given risk allowance. I want to challenge Sen. Sakaja because I believe he has the necessary networks, connections and ability to ensure that risk allowances are paid to frontline workers. If that will be done, I can assure you that the fight against COVID-19 in this country will be better, more efficient and effective. On that note, I am happy that the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare have done extremely, although he did not acknowledge that I was part of the people and the brains behind this cogent and substantive Report that he is tabling today. I was among the people who assisted him in delivering the mandate. I wish the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare very well and we expect more when we open the next session. The Committee on Labour and Social Welfare may keep electing him as Chair. I hope when Sen. Sakaja is called upon for other responsibilities in this House, he will rise to the occasion and perform beyond our expectations."
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