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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. As I stand to support the Motion, I would like to bring the attention of this House to certain features of a mass casualty incident management which is impending before us right now. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I know a few of us have talked about this being a time of war which we, as Senators must be there to fight. However, sometimes, the best war is fought when you get out of the way of a spectacular failure by being there. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are not experts in managing viruses or Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for that matter. I hope, even as we come to work that we are not going to be in the way of the response to this nation. I know we have spoken about needing information and not wanting information to come to us from different sources or third parties and that we want the CS to come to us. I am appealing to this House, I have been trained in mass casualty, incident command and management. Sometimes, we as politicians might come in the way of the response by demanding so much, wanting information to be given to us which then takes away the first responders, the CS or whoever it is that is responding to the pandemic or is trying to get the resources to them. This person ends up being diverted from responding to the public because he is dealing with us, as a House. I hope as we demand information for our constituents, we are also going to balance this with ensuring the people that need to respond to the country and Coronavirus (COVID-19) and get resources for it, are given enough time to do that. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in fact, one of the reasons why Sen. Murkomen’s initial proposal may have lacked a bit is because it did not tell us the response plan by this House. While away, what will we be doing? Will we be looking at procurement of testing kits or be part of a multi-agency team that will be looking at how the response of the country will be managed and then comeback to this House with our part of what we need or will we be managing some of these things that we are going to be saying that we are going to do? Are we going to look at the transportation, procurement and so on?"
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