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    "id": 1085178,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I would like to thank Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve for this very timely intervention on behalf of people with disabilities and all women and girls with regards to menstrual hygiene management. A year or so ago, we were talking about taxation of sanitary towels. I know that she talked about lack of information and lack of facilities, but even where the facilities and information exist, it is out of reach for most women, girls, and people with disabilities, especially in marginalized areas such as the North, where we come from. I have here with me the Budget breakdown for the year 2021/2022, but what I see is that the issues around equity, poverty reduction and social protection on vulnerable groups are not that well looked after. By comparison, the resources that these groups have been allocated are a drop in the ocean. Madam Temporary Speaker, I think that it is about time this House started scrutinizing where the money goes. Who does it benefit? Is it going to the social sector, or is it just going to constructions and things like that? This is a human rights issue, and the rights of people with disabilities, women and girls, as regards to menstruation has never been catered for. They are not in our budgets, as we can see here today, not in our plans or our institutional frameworks. It is about time this House flexed its muscles which leads to oversight of some of these things because it is not good that in the 21st Century, our girls and women are suffering from a biological function that they have no control over. Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope that even though this Statement is under Standing Order No.47 (1), we will look for ways in which we can look at implementation and follow up so that Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve can continue to implement and support this initiative to its logical conclusion. I support."
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