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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ogindo",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Otieno Ogindo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Motion. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to start by congratulating the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for having done such a wonderful job in preparing his Budget Policy Statement. I know that this House has been at the forefront of asking for engagement in the Budget making process. I think the Executive has lived up to their side of the bargain. I think it is now important that this House takes its rightful position in the new dispensation. This is the first time that the House is interacting with the Executive in the budget making process. It is important for this House, through the Chair, to ensure that Parliament has the capacity to interact with the Executive. I say this because the more we get to engage, the more it becomes technical. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to this end, I want to ask that this House finds it necessary to equip the relevant Committees to discharge their responsibilities. You will realize that what we have today is the Budget Office and Research Department. These departments are very lean and lack technical capacity. The departments we have in the Executive would range from the Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Roads, Ministry of Agriculture, and so on. To that end, in order for Parliament to match the Executive, it is important that it considers hiring experts in various fields, ranging from energy, agriculture to engineering and all manner of experts."
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