 Thank you Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I don't intend to labour the points that have already been made by the members who spoke before me, but I think equally it is important that as a Parliamentary Rep for Miku North that I add my voice in support to this particular motion, Mr. Speaker. And Mr. Speaker, I listen to most members speak about how this is going to affect positively impact their constituents. And I know the Prime Minister made it very clear that there are some people Mr. Speaker would, I don't know if it's by choice or sometimes it's that thick syndrome where you know you just do something but you don't know how you do it. And sometimes we just see we're not going to support it because it's a motion from the Saint Lucia Dua Party. And so every time I stand I speak and I speak I ask that if something is good we need to stand up and support it and say it's good. I was not there to hear the Member for Choselle, but even without hearing what his position was, I think Mr. Speaker, I can say with a certain level of confidence that I knew that he supported this motion as well as it will have. He asked me whether I'm a guard there but we've become good friends and I know what he supports and what he doesn't and I saw how comfortable he was earlier so I know that he really supported. He supported what, but Mr. Speaker, as a parliamentary representative you get to appreciate what it is that people go through because people trust you. They come and they tell you what their stories are and they invite you in their homes when ordinarily they would not invite anybody else there because of the condition of their homes. And they bring you inside and tell you what's going on later when you see what you have to put up with. And that motion Mr. Speaker does not automatically solve the problem and you'll say it's not like you can just go and get the materials for free. But what it does Mr. Speaker, it really allows, it gives you an opportunity, especially those people who are really struggling. They have an opportunity now Mr. Speaker, what the $100 was giving you before can now be stretched and you can get a lot more. For when we remove the removal of the vat on the lumber and the cement. And when we think of it, a lot of the people who use or who require, I think remember for Denry Noff said it well, he captured it well. You pass and you see the windows, the doors and some people really want, they really want to do different. They really want to see something different happen, but it's a situation where they cannot. And as I said, this alone does not solve it, but it gives you a greater opportunity. And I'm sure that the constituents, my people of Mikul Noff, would welcome this particular motion and what is happening in this house today. And I don't know how other persons would feel, but I can speak for those people who I represent, those people who come to my office on a day-to-day basis. And I can tell you that they would really welcome. And not just them Mr. Speaker, as the parliamentary representative, I think the Prime Minister, there is under the housing programme. There's an allocation that you are a small allocation that you're given to help your constituents. And now it used to give me, I used to have a lot of nightmares and headaches. I asked the boy, how do you go about this boosting this allocation? And sometimes there's a situation where somebody requires two extra sheets of blood. And it's just a situation where if I was able to help 45 people, I'm now in a position where my 80,000 or my 100,000 for housing allocation, I'm able to now assist 87 people. And these are seven families who are going to be positively impacted. These are seven children who, when the wind is blowing, they don't have to worry about getting afraid because the wind is hitting them directly. And as little as it is, it is going to help. And that's why I welcome and I support this bill in its entirety. And Mr. Speaker, this is when you cannot look at this motion in isolation. You have to look at that in a time like July when we have so many other social elements that are going to complement that. You have, I'm sure that before school reopens, we are going to have quite a few people who are going to be engaging in a national cleanup program, money in their pocket, that sheet of plywood that they're looking for in a position where they're able to buy it. That is going to be complemented if a back-to-school program. We're going to be assisting children with a back-to-school. So we cannot just look at that in isolation or in a vacuum and say, okay, that is being complemented in a time like now between July and August. You have so many other activities, so many other activities on the social spectrum that are going to be able to help cushion the blues that we felt from the inflation and other things. So, as I said, when you look at, Mr. Speaker, earlier this afternoon, when the Prime Minister was speaking, I got a little picture of the Prime Minister saying, no vat, no whatever. And I posted it on my status. And this week, I can tell you, even minutes of me posting, somebody gave a joke. I know it was a joke. A man said, send me a voice note and tell me, boy, you're happy with that lumb and ting because now you can be loud. So his jabbal all beat. He said it in a joking manner, but it just shows that people appreciate the gestures that have been made by this government. But on a more sensitive side, Mr. Speaker, I know that there are women listening to and I'm happy to see the amount of interest that this particular motion has generated. People have sent me messages, quite a few women, Mr. Speaker. I was downstairs with the Prime Minister and I showed him some of the messages that I got. And you would think somebody would try to trivialize the removal of vat on something like sanitary napkins. And someone might try and trivialize. That's all. And Mr. Speaker, even I did not even understand or fully appreciate it, maybe because I'm not in the business of buying sanitary napkins. I did not fully appreciate what it is. But Mr. Speaker, I really did not appreciate the magnitude of that small gesture. And it's when today when I posted my status and I saw so many women sending me messages saying, thank you, thank you for removing the vat. Then I realized, but I did not know that. And we're talking about working class women, police officers, teachers, people who are working. And they say that sanitary napkins or we want to call them period products have gotten to the point where Prime Minister was right. And he said that they are people who have to take a decision as to whether or not they're going to let the pad stay a little longer than it's supposed to be able to stretch it as to whether or not they're in a position to send their children to school. And I don't think that in today's era, Mr. Speaker, that that is a decision that any woman should be confronted with. And I'm hoping that I think that this is a very progressive step. And even moving forward, I think a few weeks ago I was in Canada and the debate was to make period products available in bathrooms similar to when you go to the bathroom, you can get tissue to make it available to women. And I thought that was very progressive thinking. And I think that is a direction that we now as a small island developing state should aim to get. I mean, we're not going to get there overnight, but that is the first step. So I welcome such an initiative and I applaud the Prime Minister and the government for seeing it necessary to be able to bring relief to this people. And I said most of the people who really cannot afford that are really the vulnerable people, Mr. Speaker. And I've been to put up with all the other issues of life, Mr. Speaker. I think, as I said, no woman, no girl, no female should be faced with having to make a decision as to whether I buy bread in the morning or whether I can afford that. So I welcome that. And I say I look forward to it. And I know that all the women from Mykonof, and I know I cannot speak for all the women from St. Lucia, but all those women who are in my circle and those who send me messages, Mr. Speaker, I welcome, I can echo their sentiments and say that they welcome such a gesture. So I want to see, Mr. Speaker, that I commend the Prime Minister for bringing forward this motion and for the other members for supporting this motion. And I know that it will go a long way. It's going to ensure that people have a little more money in their pocket. Their dollar can go a little further. And as I said, I'm always, you know, detailed, Mr. Speaker, with requests every day, every single day my staff sends me messages about somebody brings an open bill. But somebody doesn't want to see a sister say, just buy a dirty shit plywood. Not about a few weeks, three weeks ago. And I'm just thinking of it three weeks ago. I'd have spent somewhere, or I would have written to SSDF to assist me with housing for a particular gentleman, my constituency, who needed to just build a toilet. And it would have cost me maybe in the range. Materials would have come maybe to the tune of five or $6,000. They're about, and I'm sure SSDF would have more money in their coffers, even under their own housing assistance program, because that materialist would go down by about 12.5%, which would mean they would take a $6,000 bill, would mean you would take somewhere in the range of maybe $600 or something off it. And that can go to assisting somebody. So I'm happy that right now our dollar can, we get more materials. They would say more buck for a dollar, but we get more materials for our dollar now. You have more spending power as it relates to purchasing of materials. And I know that there are quite a few people in the constituency who actually postpone and they have been waiting. So they postpone making their purchase because they really want to do something and they figure, okay, here's what I'm going to get a break. So as much as somebody may try to trivialize it and say that people don't eat plywood or those people who really need plywood, where they actually get the money to buy it. I know that there are people in my constituency who need the plywood and they're actually waiting on August 2nd to see. And it's going to cause, it's a domino effect. There's going to be, you're going to see, there's a situation, we anticipate that we're going to see a little more movement as it relates to construction workers. Somebody might be more inclined now to put a little piece on their house because they feel, okay, now I have an opportunity. So I think these breaks really work well for the most important people, or the most vulnerable people in the country. So I welcome this, Mr. Speaker. And I just want to lend my voice in support to this motion. So thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.