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    "id": 1562167,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. There is a little bit of concern with the Statement made by the Prime Cabinet Secretary. At the end of the day, he seems to be telling the House that the Government will be making a saving after harmonisation in the report of the multi-agency taskforce. That means there is going to be a reduction of hardship areas in the country. If he listened to the House, the mood is that hardship areas are likely to increase. Two issues arise. First, it is vitally important that the House sees that policy before it is even gazetted anywhere. We will annul it if it is gazetted to have any element of force of law. We will not agree with it. Two, while my Tharaka Constituency is not a gazetted hardship area and purely because of a CBA between the TSC and the Government... Tharaka Constituency became a hardship area for teachers only. The other designation is with the Judiciary. It was the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary who visited the area and considered it an extreme hardship area. What criterion is being used so that the rest of the civil servants in Tharaka Constituency also enjoy hardship allowance? It goes without gainsaying that Tharaka is one of the most marginalised areas. It deserves hardship allowance in respect of all civil servants in that locality. Thank you Hon. Speaker."
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