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    "id": 553648,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/553648/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "Thank you for this opportunity hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to first of all appreciate the debate we had today over the manner in which the Budget and Appropriations Committee operates with the other Committees. Committees spend a lot of time and talk to different people who are concerned with those Ministries in trying to come up with the Budget Estimates. At the end of the day we have to come up with a budget which is national and serves our macro-economic goals. We appreciate the involvement of Committees and I want to say that as a member of that Committee, we largely take recommendations of other Committees because they spend a lot of time and have more information than the Budget and Appropriations Committee. They actually have all information. We deviate a little bit on issues raised by Committees only when we have extra information or when there are things that are emotional that we need to address in our country. If you look at our Budget today, it is not the best that we can have in our country. We still have a development budget that is only 36 per cent and a recurrent expenditure of 40 per cent of our total Budget. If we want to develop and reach the goals of the developed countries, we would like to see a reverse of the same. It is even worrying when you look at what we had in terms of revenue last time and what we have as revenue this year, the growth that we get in terms of revenue versus the growth that we get in terms of expenditure. Today we have a net negative"
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