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    "id": 1151584,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1151584/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "Although this Bill seeks to amend the Persons with Disabilities Act, 2003, it is intently and appropriately drafted to retain the progressive provisions of the current Act. We are not just getting rid of the current Act as it is. Most of the provisions of the current Act are retained, but updated as far as possible. For example, the administrative institution which is the National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD), and which has played a key role in advocating for the rights of PWDs, has been retained in the Bill. Additionally, the Bill retains the incentives that were given to private employers who employ PWDs. Most importantly, all the reliefs and tax incentives in terms of tax exemptions that have been given to PWDs, including preferential access to credit, have also been retained. So, we are not losing anything in terms of what we already have in the Persons with Disabilities Act, 2003, but we are creating a modern law in line with the Constitution that will respond to issues that have arisen since 2003 to date. It is in this regard that I wish to urge the Members of this House to support this Bill as a show of their support and empathy for our brothers and sisters living with disabilities in our great republic and to ensure that they are also mainstreamed into the larger society. Hon. Speaker, with those remarks, I beg to move. I wish to ask Hon. Gideon Koske, the Vice-Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, to second."
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