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    "content": "participation? Note what the Departmental Committee on Budget and Appropriation was doing by going to villages and promising bridges and funny roads. In the Budget making process, when you say you are going to receive views and all you get is people crying that there were locusts and tsetse flies in their areas, surely, in as much as it may be good to hear those views, what are you going to do about those situations? Budgets are not made that way. Even the other Arm of Government was supposed to do public participation in coming up with proposals on budgetary allocations. That is a subject that has been addressed in a number of forums that I have had. We need to pay attention to the 85 per cent or so that is left at the national level so that we see how it is allocated. But, again, it is this House which must deal with that aspect. It is you in the various Departmental committees, through the Budget and Appropriations Committee. But maybe we should also think of how to improve this. Even as we want to do legislation, we should stand and hold these legislations… This is because there are certain things that you may not bind other Arms of Government to do. They may come and tell you: “No, this does not apply in our field.” So, we also need to concentrate on our own processes to make sure that they are beyond reproach. Hon. Duale would recall that one of the judgements that I have in mind is one that said six days of public hearings was insufficient. Even as Kenyans are busy crying that we are not doing this, if the courts are saying that six days of public hearings are not enough, I do not know what is good enough. Each case will depend on its own peculiar merits. Is it not Hon. Millie? So, if it is about reproductive health care, obviously, there will be many key stakeholders, whom we have provided for here in that sector. A judge may say that if we have not had views from a particular sector, then we may not have sufficiently informed legislation. All these are matters you will have to consider. For the time being, I want to give direction. Given what you Members have said, there is need to stand down the consideration of this Bill."
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