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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Crystal Asige",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. To the hon. Cabinet Secretary, I am sure she is aware that persons with disabilities make up around eight million people, which is about 15 to 16 per cent of our population. On top of that, if you add the elderly, which is approximated to around two million, that makes about 10 million people that are in a vulnerable group category. Madam Cabinet Secretary, how are you incorporating these approximate 10 million people in the housing projects that you are speaking of? Confirm to the House that all of the units that you speak of will have universal design principles incorporated into them, so that whoever gets one of these units, for example, no matter their ability or disability, can be accommodated properly and as per the law. Are the social amenities that she has also spoken of around these housing units, the schools, the hospitals, the supermarkets, also going to incorporate universal design principles in them? This is so that we are not complaining in years to come that this building or that housing unit or that supermarket or that school was built in recent time, but still did not consider persons with disabilities or those with reduced mobility and different types of accommodative needs that they require. I am sure she is aware that there is a law that says if a building is a multi-story building, more than three or four stories high, it has to have, according to the law, a lift that is usable and that is working in proper condition. Otherwise, there is punitive action against that said building and its management. So, I would like her to confirm to the House that these universal design principles are being considered from the conception stage, which is right now."
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