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    "id": 1424931,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1424931/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, yesterday, I was just beginning to Second this Bill when time ran out. This Bill is very critical to manage the weather conditions in this country. Previously, the Meteorology Department has just been a department within a Ministry. They have had constraints on budgets. They have had issues with the management of their funds. A technical department such as the Meteorological Department, was unable even to purchase important equipment that is necessary for purposes of doing the scientific things that they need to do, so that we can have accurate assessment of the weather and reporting to the citizens of this Republic. What this Bill is seeking to do is to create an authority that will be semi- independent. This authority will have the power to determine its budget. It will have the ability to source funding. It will be able to collaborate with similar organizations all over the world, and also partner with similar organizations all over the world. These kinds of partnerships become very difficult to happen when you are a department within a ministry. When we establish an authority, the Meteorological Authority as we want to do now, then we can enable this authority to reach its full potential. Previously, the issues of climate change were not a central global agenda. It was okay to put the meteorological"
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