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    "id": 1046459,
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    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No. 97 (4), this House orders that each speech in a debate on the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on Budget Estimates, contemplated under Standing Orders No. 239 and No. 240, be limited as follows: (i) General Supply Debate: - a maximum of three sitting days with 30 minutes for the Mover in moving and 15 minutes in replying; a maximum of 15 minutes for each of the Chairpersons of the Departmental Committees and a maximum of 10 minutes for any other Member speaking, except the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party who shall be limited to a maximum of 15 minutes each; and that priority in speaking be accorded to the Leader of Majority Party, the Leader of the Minority Party and the respective Chairpersons of Departmental Committees in the order that they appear in the Second Schedule of the Standing Orders; and, (ii) Committee of Supply: - A maximum of six sitting days for the consideration of the proposed allocations to the respective votes and programmes in the order specified in the schedule submitted by the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Hon. Members, you will note that our main job, as Parliament, is appropriation of funds in terms of where they will be applied. Hence, we are allocating nine days, three at the general supply debate and then within the Committee of Supply where the individual committees will present their budgets. There is a maximum of six days. Traditionally, people used to agitate for more time to be given and on the sixth day, you would have a guillotine for anything not debated. In the last three years or so, we have seen that after one day, there is no interest. Members are not sure whether money has been allocated to the various departments to service our people. Even when we then go to interrogate it further, we do not interrogate at the allocation and so it becomes very difficult to interrogate at the implementation stage. I would like to ask Members that this year, as we go towards setting the standards for the 13th Parliament and looking at what has happened in the last four years, we actually put more time in debating this budget cycle. This is fairly important. I would have asked Hon. Aisha Jumwa to second, but I realised that she has left. So, allow me to move and ask Hon. Kawira Mwangaza to second."
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