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"speaker_name": "Ol Jorok, UDA",
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"content": "I would like to thank the Chairman and Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, where I serve. Through constant engagement with the National Treasury, we have reduced the fiscal deficit in these Estimates from 5.1 per cent in the last financial year to 4.5 per cent in the coming 2025/2026 fiscal year. This has been achieved by ensuring that we have realistic revenue projections. Previously, we over-projected our revenue. In the tabled Budget Estimates, we have ensured that the projected revenue is as realistic as possible."
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"content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, we have also achieved this through the rationalisation of the expenditure by ensuring that we have included only the essential expenditure estimates. Speaking of fiscal deficit, we also realised that we have been focusing a lot on the revenue side through taxation measures and similar initiatives. We recommend in this Report that we also focus on the expenditure side by ensuring that we eliminate wasteful expenditure in government."
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"speaker_name": "Ol Jorok, UDA",
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"content": "Rental expenditure is one of the sectors that we picked. We realised that we pay billions of shillings every year in rent for government departments and Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs). Some of the lease agreements were entered in US Dollars. We were paying big amounts of money in rent when our Shilling was volatile. One of the recommendations we have made is that we should ensure we reform our rent policy and, optimally, use our revenue space."
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"speaker_name": "Ol Jorok, UDA",
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"content": "Secondly, we should conduct a cost-benefit analysis by comparing the amount of rent we are paying with the cost of buying a building to serve as office space for our officers."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Michael Muchira",
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"content": "We also took note of our Appropriations-in-Aid (A-in-A) and found that the projected A-in-A for the next fiscal year is Ksh560 billion. As a Committee, we recommend that we reassess the overall framework governing our Appropriations-in-Aid. In these Estimates, we have allocated funds towards the full operationalisation of the Treasury Single Account to ensure that the collection of A-in-A is transparent, accountable, and efficient. Secondly, let me go to the education sector. As many other speakers have mentioned, we have allocated funds to recruit 20,000 interns in the upcoming fiscal year. We have also provided resources for the promotion of teachers. However, as we do this, we also recommend that the promotion of teachers needs to be transparent and fair. In our constituencies, many teachers complain that they attend interviews but are never promoted. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) needs to revise its policy to ensure that promotions are conducted fairly and transparently. We have also allocated funds for the medical scheme for teachers. Again, this is another area that TSC needs to look at. We have many complaints out there from our teachers. For instance, in the medical scheme that they have, if a teacher has two sick beneficiaries, they are told to choose one to be treated. This is unfair. As many other speakers have mentioned, we have provided funding for examinations, including the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA), and the Grade Nine exams. So, our students need to rest easy and work hard because their exams will be catered for. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as I finalise, I need to mention an issue I also raised in the last financial year. This is the issue of the Senate Oversight Fund. It is important for Hon. Members to know that in this budget, there is Ksh500 million for the Senate Oversight Fund. This is not money for development. It is important for the public to know that some Senators take home as much as Ksh29 million, not for development but for oversight. How do they get The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "extra money for oversight, yet they are paid? They have salaries to use for oversight. County Women Representatives get Ksh6 million a year, and we see what they are doing. This is Ksh29 million for one Senator, Ksh25 million for another Senator and money for fuel and oversight. There is no legal framework for the Senate Oversight Fund. It is, therefore, time for the National Assembly, which has the sole mandate of budgeting and appropriating funds, to take a firm stance and make the right decision regarding the appropriation of this money. If the Ksh500 million is taken to the NG-CDF, every constituency will get enough money to construct classrooms. We still have issues with the adequacy of classrooms in our constituencies. With those remarks, I support."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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"content": " Hon. Kangogo Bowen, there are Members whom the previous Speaker had designated."
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"speaker_name": "Marakwet East, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Kangogo Bowen",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the Budget Estimate 2025/2026. Allow me to start by congratulating my good friend, the Member for Alego Usonga Constituency and Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, Hon. Atandi, on a very good report. As Chairpersons of committees, we had an engagement with the Budget and Appropriations Committee, led by the Hon. Atandi. They were very interactive sessions, where all of us presented the reports that the MDAs under our watch submitted to us. What the Chair has said is what we presented. On one or two previous occasions, we have had issues with the Budget and Appropriations Committee, where reports submitted by Chairpersons of departmental committees were mutilated, and we ended up with a different document on the Floor. I want to confirm that this time round, what we presented to the Committee is what has been brought to this plenary. I congratulate the Chair."
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"speaker_name": "Marakwet East, UDA",
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"content": "Secondly, I thank the Committee and the National Treasury for the good job they have done. This is a very balanced Budget in terms of provision for regional projects and in cutting across departments. I have seen allocations to the Executive, Judiciary and Parliament. I ask the Chair and the Committee to see how to increase the allocation to the Judiciary next time to complete the projects they have started. There are so many court buildings whose construction has stalled at various stages in many counties. Some of us have to travel for almost 200 kilometres to access the nearest magistrate’s court. There is a need to take judicial services closer to the people. I support increasing the budgetary allocation to the Judiciary."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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"content": " The Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs is obviously taking note of that, including the stalled construction of the High Court in Homa Bay."
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