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    "id": 1015359,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1015359/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have the Equalization Fund. I think this debate took longer than it needed to take because the Government has not come out honestly on the issue of the disbursement of the Equalization Fund. Moreover, it is a mechanism that we can use to calibrate the support for counties where there are perceived shortfalls. If, for example, using population data we saw that there was going to be a big fall and the fall has a reason because there was a big gain that was not a justifiable gain and so it is a compensation, we would have looked for ways which you can cushion the adjustment to normality. To data, that is real data. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are a number of factors in the formula that we have been told - and I also want to thank both the Leader of Majority and Hon. Mbadi for attempting to clarify and tell us what is behind these numbers. I think that going forward, we need to get a robust debate - not on the actual outcomes first of all - but on how these numbers are being put in. This is because what you put in - like they say garbage in, garbage out - is what you might get outside. However, I am hoping that the next generation formula or as this goes forward, let us ask ourselves how we normalize the differences in mortality rates - say child mortality. How can we get this region to rise up to the national averages and not just deal with input factors? Let us deal with impacts as well. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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