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    "id": 88186,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/88186/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "When HELB was set up in 1995, part of the things that it gave power to and created was the Act of Parliament that gave it power to legally recover the loans. The idea is, as we all know, to set up a revolving Fund. This Motion is saying that, indeed, the money that is available is insufficient. I wholly concur with the Mover of this Motion that the Government needs to treble these funds. A lot of times, whenever we in Parliament push for things to happen, the standard Government answer has always been that “we do not have enough funds”. I know that when political will is there and, indeed, we have some desire to push education forward in terms of higher education, we can move on. So far, we have done so well in terms of basic education, but there is no political will on the part of the Government to put enough funds for us to treble the funding that HELB needs to get. Our Motion here is urging the Government to find in itself, the will to find money from somewhere and triple the allocation for HELB. One of the things that this Motion is requesting, that I am also wholly in support of, is that we need to strengthen and widen the management of HELP by ensuring representation from every part of the country."
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