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    "id": 255766,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Maore",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maoka Maore",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is in order now. Sometime towards the end of last year, when the \"Banana virus\" was at its height, we had a pronouncement made creating 34 new districts. Now, if you go to the office of the Seconder of this Motion, who is the Minister for Planning and National Development, and the Ministry of Finance, there was no budgetary provision to back these pronouncements. We used to get criticism from this side of this House when hon. Members from the Government were on this side of the House, about how ridiculous it 58 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 23 March, 2006 sounded for one to go pronouncing new districts just to be cheered by mobs. Politicians are beneficiaries of these districts. This is a very popular game with politicians, but a very ridiculous idea when it comes to budgetary provisions for new districts that are formed without any consideration whatsoever to budgetary constraints. The amount of money required to set up a new district is huge. There has to be a DC, vehicles, security, housing and so on. We now have about 37 Ministries, which means about 37 departmental heads---"
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