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    "id": 1511537,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1511537/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Thika Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alice Nga’ng’a",
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    "content": " Thank you, Temporary Speaker. At least I am happy. I have waited since morning. I beg to move that the Persons with Disabilities Bill (Senate Bill No. 7 of 2023), be read a Second Time. The Bill seeks to give effect to Article 54 of the Constitution, restructure the National Council for Persons with Disabilities, provide for the council function and powers, provide for the institutional framework for protecting, promoting and monitoring the rights of persons with disabilities, and to provide for incentives among other related objectives. If the Bill is passed, it will repeal the current Persons with Disabilities Act of 2003. Following its passage in the Senate and its First Reading in this House, the Bill was committed to the Departmental Committee on Social Protection that I chair for consideration and reporting to this House, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 127(1). In compliance with Article 118 of the Constitution, the Committee, through the placement of an advertisement in the print media, invited the public and interested stakeholders"
}