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    "id": 104548,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/104548/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "We hope that the Budget Committee and Fiscal Management Act that has brought that forward has in mind, the fact that each Ministry prepares its own strategic plan, that each Ministry has a building block and that its policies and strategies are congruent with the others. That is where the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 comes in. It is a matrix approach. The matrix approach is like building a pyramid. It is a continuing role that the Ministries must play. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 must be the coordinators. If that happens, then there will be synergy and the Ministries will all work together in the same direction and be congruent. They will not be working against each other. There is a disconnect that we have seen before, where one Ministry is planning this way and the other one is going the other way. I do not want to talk too much about that, but there are the maize and milk scandals and other issues which, in fact, go contrary to the essence of budget and policy making. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has really allayed his problems and talked about them to the Committee, and we feel for him. We feel that the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 should become an implementer and make sure that the budget making is alive at every Ministry. They must have somebody from the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030. The budget making process is a constant and continuous process that cannot just be coming up at the end of the year. These processes are communicable and start to become more transparent. I urge the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 to start trying to make our budgets more transparent. Of course, it is a very complex process which requires a number of very intelligent and experienced economists. But I think they can simplify it like in certain countries where the budget making process is on computers and the internet."
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