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    "id": 1003208,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "At the outset, I do support this Finance Bill. I thank and congratulate Hon. Limo and his team for coming up with this very-easy-to-understand Finance Bill and for having worked very hard to make sure that it beats all the deadlines so that we can finance the Budget that we have just passed in this House. Without the Finance Bill, having a budget of trillions of shillings will be nothing and, sometimes, it will lead us towards, probably, borrowing more and having very high debts. However, if we put in place bills that will make sure that we collect enough revenue to finance our own Budget, it will be very good. That is why I congratulate Hon. Limo for the good work he and his Committee have done. We also cherish those days, although I was not in the House when Hon. (Dr.) Kimunya was here as the then Finance Minister. The Cabinet Secretary in charge of this docket would be sweating if we had CSs within this House. That is why earlier, Members were proposing that the CSs should be part of this House. This is an honourable House which only allows Hon. Members to be within. So, it does not allow dishonorable or disorderly members and strangers from outside to be within it. So, we will live with this one until this issue of Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) and the referendum... I do not know, but was it in the reggae also? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, now going to the Budget, the cash transfer for severely disabled persons has been constant for a period of five years. The fund allocated to the National Council for Persons with Disabilities has been reduced year in, year out. This year, it has been reduced by Kshs59 million. The ultimate test of any Government is in the way it treats the weaker members of the society. People living with disabilities are among the weakest members of our society and so, we have to know how to cushion them. Zero-rating of packed milk and bread, as Hon. Atandi and Hon. Kiarie have said, is for the rich. We should request the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning to come up with ways of zero-rating what is really needed on the ground. That is why they have talked of"
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