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    "id": 207349,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Mbarire",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker August 22, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3347 Sir, I stand to support this important Motion, which is long overdue. I will start by congratulating the Mover of the Motion for this noble idea. The Chinese say that if you give them a child who is below five years and you take back that child after five years, then they would have given that child his or her entire personality for the rest of his or her life. They recognise how important it is to take care of children and develop their personality at that critical age. It is, therefore, extremely important for us, as a country, to realise the need to develop the personalities and the whole being of those children at this critical age. I, therefore, think that, the issue of early childhood education is critical in shaping up the personality of the whole being of these children at that tender age. Looking at the infrastructure of early childhood education, you will realise that the classrooms are in a very poor state, the ventilation is wanting, the children do not have toilets that have been built specifically to suit their age, and they do not have adequate warmth when it is cold. They do not get clean air when it is warm. For that reason, those children get very sick during cold weather or hot season. This becomes a burden to the parents when they have to keep on taking them to hospital every single day."
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