{"id":805374,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/805374/?format=json","text_counter":188,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. A.B. Duale","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":15,"legal_name":"Aden Bare Duale","slug":"aden-duale"},"content":"Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, these are interesting times. People are supporting gender when they have just killed the budget of the young people of this country. So, this House must agree on how to protect the mother yet kill the child. The Committee of Supply is a very serious legislative procedure. People want to support gender; allocate more money to the ladies and then kill the other part of humanity. We need to find the balance. I am sure all is not lost. As a person who speaks for the Executive, I want to confirm, on record, that the purported resources that you are being told by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing and others is part of the deficit in this Budget. I do not know how we are going to fund a deficit in this Budget. But I just support this gender issue not because of any other reason, but because I have been carrying the gender Bills and burden. I was not doing this because of the sitting Members of Parliament here, but because of my old mother who made me who I am today. I will always stand with issues that deal with women."}