Possible Clues:

• Soon Rita will change addresses
• Discourses on the zero quotas
• Formal speeches, often at funerals
• They're given at graduations
• Elaborate formal speeches
• Said that you can make no allowances for them, perhaps
• Amount put into very big speeches
• 'Nothing by way of allowances, in a manner of speaking (8)'
• Speeches over budgets
• Addresses nothing, with only these allowed