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    "id": 1278905,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon Temporary Speaker. When a Member goes to a bank or financial lending institution, they guide him to fill a two or three- page document, which tries to assess his ability to pay and the need for him to have those resources. That is an example of a “means-testing” instrument. It has been in use for several years. Even in the current system, students’ means are tested. Let me take you to the constituencies. I conduct oral means testing in my constituency to determine who qualifies to benefit from NG-CDF. If you are an orphan, you get more money. If you are from a single parent family and you are very needy—for example, if your mother or father are unemployed or are peasant farmers, you get a bigger amount. If you are a child of a teacher in a rural constituency, you get less. The kind of means testing that we have today is supposed to classify the child based on the school he attended. Did he attend a very local school? Was he being dropped by parents at school? Is he a beneficiary of scholarships or bursaries of NG-CDF? The responses I get guide me as to which category of need each student belongs. Assuming that it is a child of Hon. Melly, and I am taking the child to school, the child will be asked what means of transport he uses to get to school. He or she will say they were dropped by the driver or they were taken to school by their parents. That child will be in the category of the less needy. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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