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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I arise to support the amendments by the Senate. National Assembly had done quite a lot of work on this Bill. From the Senate amendments, we are mostly trying to clear some grammatical errors and giving definitions. The only problem I have is with one of the amendments. They are removing the words ‘youth, women and people with disability’ and inserting the word ‘disadvantaged groups’. They went ahead and explained what a ‘disadvantaged’ group means. They have left it so open and any person of any age or gender can claim to be a disadvantaged group. If you look at Clause 3 of the Bill, it says:- “Delete and substitute with the following new clauses to say ‘disadvantaged group”. Then the explanation given there will allow any person who feels disadvantaged to join. This new clause specifically was meant for the youth, women and people living with disability. If we leave it as it is, any old man or I can just walk in and claim the position. If you look at what has been explained under Clause 3(a) of the amendment, it has quite a number of issues The other bit I concur with them is this: They have expounded “public entity\" by giving definition under Clause 3. They have indicated that it is not only the national Government that will support but rather, we need to look at any other Government institution that has capability. They have brought in the county governments, their departments and any other State corporation including the Central Bank and many others. I agree with hon. Sakaja that we do not look at 30 per cent only but rather, the value and it has been expounded clearly on who should be given. It does not have so many issues to do with the actual Bill other than giving fresh definitions and renumbering some of the programmes here and there. I agree that Senate plays a big role because this Bill will also affect the county governments. Whatever they have brought us will go a long way to try and assist the women, youth and people living with disability. It is important we get those The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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