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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kenyatta",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me the opportunity to respond to some of the issues that have been raised by hon. Members on the Budget Policy Statement. I want to take this opportunity first of all, to thank Members of the Budget Committee whom we have worked with well. I want to once again assure this House that it is indeed the intention of the Ministry of Finance to continue with that relationship. We also fully appreciate the important role that the Budget Committee can play in helping transform the Budget into an effective instrument towards translating our national aspirations to reality. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are certain issues and concerns that have been raised in this Report and I would like to respond to some. On whether the 2010 Budget Policy Statement fully complies with the law, as was questioned in some statement, the Committee Report notes that it falls short of providing details and breakdown on Ministerial ceilings. However, I would agree partially with the Committee’s observation that the Budget Policy Statement only focuses on sectoral programmes and sectoral ceilings. It is however also true that the Fiscal Management Act of 2009 in its wisdom, also recognized the limitation of availing Ministerial ceilings by March 21st of every year. Thus, it clearly states in Section 7, Sub-section 2(d) that:- “The total resources to be allocated to individual programmes within a sector or Ministry for the period identified under paragraph A, indicating the outputs expected from each such programme during the period---“ So, therefore, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it does mean the option of either giving sectoral ceilings, or Ministerial ceilings, and in our case we did give, in accordance with the law, the sectoral ceilings."
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