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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "be a reality, and that any time we have a change of Government, it will be in law and nobody is going to change the reforms which have been put in place. The Leader of Majority Party has gone through it and explained why we need this law and it should have been in place yesterday. We have seen women with children in prison. We have seen women with infants in prisons. We have seen women getting infants. They go there when they are pregnant and they deliver babies when they are in prison, but they are not treated well because of the mix up there. There is congestion in prisons. This law once assented will separate breastfeeding mothers from pregnant women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons. Even refugees are going to be given separate accommodation; men and women are not going to be put together. Grownups are not going to be put together with the children. This is a step in the right direction; we are anchoring all this in the law. But I need to point out one or two things. It requires quite a heavy budgetary allocation. So, it is up to this House to make sure that whatever is in this Bill becomes law. The only way to make sure that this is realised, especially to make sure that people get the right accommodation, meals, mattresses and everything else--- Because it has all been written here, it will require money. This is the only House mandated to make sure that, that becomes a reality in the sense that from the next financial year we should be looking at these areas, more so prisons and make sure that enough money is voted to them. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not have much to say except that I wish to see our prisons, correctional centres and remand areas being changed to be in tandem with the current times, and as we see in developed countries. I beg to second."
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