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    "id": 1105642,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1105642/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Nasri Ibrahim",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13173,
        "legal_name": "Nasri Sahal Ibrahim",
        "slug": "nasri-sahal-ibrahim"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. The new regulations aim to streamline the cash transfer programme with the funds administered by the oversight board through the Social Assistance Fund. The objectives and purpose of the Fund is to provide funding for the provision of social assistance for the poor and vulnerable persons in particular, among others, to provide for development and promotion of social assistance programmes and initiatives in the country. It also aims to provide for the criteria for identification, screening and prioritisation of beneficiary of social assistance benefits, and to provide for quality assurance framework to ensure that only eligible persons benefit from the social assistance funds. It is also to develop and promote programmes to render the recipients of social assistance capable of self-support and exit from social assistance benefits, to enhance financial capacity of the recipient and dependant from linkage with other Government interventions and to promote and incorporate recipient into other complementary services and access to better life conditions."
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