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    "id": 1162212,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr Temporary Speaker, Sir. I initially I wanted to comment on this Statement, then I thought I should not because some Statements just make you upset and angry as a parent. However, our work is not to be angry but to provide solutions. What is happening in this area of domestic workers is really disheartening. There is a Bill that I brought in 2015, that we passed that created The National Employment Authority that I thought was working as it should. Instead of just looking at external domestic labour migration, even locally, it was supposed to be like the National Employment Bureau where anyone seeking for a job should have been on their data base. They should vet and accredit such that if today you want a plumber or a house help you will go to that data base where one is accredited and vetted by even the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and then you can get them to your house. Parents are at a loss; you entrust somebody with your child, you go to work, you are paying them a salary, you do not know what is going to happen. A child is at risk at the place that should be the safest to them; at home. It is extremely disheartening. For those cases that have been discovered, the harshest law should be applied to them. Mr Temporary Speaker, Sir, as parents and employers, we must look at ourselves. Many employers are mistreating these house helps. I have heard very many cases where these domestic workers are not given food. I know someone who sleeps at the balcony. They are told not to eat what the family is eating. You cannot treat somebody as a second-class person and expect them to treat your child with dignity. These are also human beings. It is a give and take. We need to have sanity in our society. There has been a serious breakdown in who we are as a people. If there is something urgent that we need to look at as leaders even outside Parliament, is what is this moral breakdown that is happening in our society. From the case of the young lady"
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