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    "content": "orphans, in an effort to give some disposable income to them. What we are saying is that we should stop the exercise so-called “pilot studies” because when you do pilot studies, you discriminate against some areas since you choose one or two districts. This causes us a lot of problems as some hon. Members ask why their districts are not receiving the so- called “cash transfers”. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, finally, we are saying that if you educate a woman, you educate a family. That is very true. We have the one-third gender rule. Members of Parliament are now struggling to find a formula but what I want to say for the record is that when the Constitution was being drafted, Treasury raised the concern of how expensive it would be to implement it, but they were not listened to. We have now adopted the new Constitution, which says that no public body should have more than two-thirds of its membership comprising of one gender. We should not use costs as an excuse for denying women their rightful share of the seats in Parliament and in the Senate. We should come up with a solution. Democracy is expensive. Therefore, we are recommending that Parliament should respect the one- third gender rule. With those remarks, I beg to move."
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