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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The Parliament of Kenya has two Houses: the National Assembly, where you are, and the Senate. The roles of the National Assembly are representation, legislation and oversight. However, there is an additional role given to this House of Parliament which relates to budget and appropriations. We appropriate monies, in terms of division of revenue. We share the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "monies between the levels of Government. We then send the portion allocated to counties to the Senate to share among the counties. We remain with the portion for the National Government to be shared out among the various Ministries, various State Departments and sectors of Government, including the education sector and other sectors within the National Government functions."
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"content": "We are in the budget-making process today. Regarding representation, I would like to mention to them that this is a very tedious process. We are talking about the monies going to the various agencies, but we will later look at how they will be raised. That is when we will talk about the Finance Bill, one of which, you remember, was torpedoed last year."
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"content": "As I conclude, I would like to inform our visiting schools and students that when they look at the faces of the National Assembly and the Senate, they will notice a distinctive difference. On the face of the Senate, at the door, you will see the flags of the various counties because it represents counties as entities. On the face of the National Assembly, you will see sculptures of human beings to signify that we are seated here on behalf of the people of Kenya who elected us to represent them, exercising their sovereign will. Those features will always be there. The budget-making process and the revenue-raising measures to sustain the Budget are very tedious. We have begun debating the Budget Estimates. Later on, we will deal with Committee of Supply where we allocate various sums of monies directly to the various agencies of Government, so that they can perform their functions both in the Constitution and the various laws we deal with."
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"content": "The National Assembly has 350 Hon. Members, including the Speaker. It is bigger than most secondary schools in the country. The Senate has 68 Members, including their Speaker. If you have time, the roles of the National Assembly are specifically delineated or set out under Article 95 of the Constitution, while those of the Senate are in Article 96 of the Constitution. They deal with laws concerning counties and participate in those law-making functions, but we share in the sense that the National Assembly ultimately enacts all laws."
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"content": "You can conclude and proceed to the Budget deliberations."
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"content": " Yes. I have done the Budget preparations and I think they now understand it. I have emphasised that we are debating on how the Budget Estimates will go to various ministries and sectors of the economy to support the public services of the Government. We are doing this in a very constrained environment."
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"content": "I thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I wish the students sitting in the Speaker's Gallery and Public Gallery a good academic tour within the House of Parliament."
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"content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I also want to contribute. I have looked at the Reports presented to this House by the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Let me start by thanking the new Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, Hon. Samuel Atandi, and his Members for the good work they have done in the Budget."
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"content": "Firstly, the Budget Estimates for this year have restored the power and authority of the Departmental Committees in their participation in the budget-making process. Most of the Chairs of the various Departmental Committees have spoken here. They have confirmed that, unlike before, the recommendations from the Departmental Committees which are in charge of the various ministries, departments and sectors of Government, have been carried forth. This is unique. In the past, departmental committees assisted the Budget and Appropriations Committee in this process, but what they recommended in some cases was not carried forth. I commend the Budget and Appropriations Committee chaired by my brother, Hon. Samuel Atandi, for that good work. Number two, there have been complaints that the Budget Estimates and the allocation and appropriation of national resources have been unequal and unfair to some regions, people and sectors of governance. Hon. Atandi, today, I was very glad when I saw a road specifically mentioning Mandera County. It was so pleasant. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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