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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we discussed the issue of re-allocation of resources yesterday, when we looked at the Supplementary Budget. We mentioned that there were new entries. I even mentioned it and asked: âWhy do we have new entries?â The Minister did re- allocation in the Budget for the 2008/2009 Financial Year. The Budget for the 2008/2009 Financial Year was not fully fulfilled, because of re-allocations. There are re-allocations in the current financial year and yet, in the Supplementary Budget, we have brought in new Items. What is the use of passing a Budget and subsequently, re-allocating funds and introducing completely new Items? As a Committee, we do not want to see any new programmes. We want to urge this House that this habit of having new items being brought into the Budget must come to a stop. We were told that a building had to be refurbished. If the building was not in the plan to begin with, then it has to wait until the next Budget. It is very important that we be very clear on what we are doing because, unless we do planning, we will never move in this country. We will continue complaining about the same things. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of austerity measures, we congratulated the Minister last year for bringing in the Volkswagen Passat cars, but nobody knows what we have realised out of that measure. Was it cosmetic or was it real? What have we gotten out of it? The budgets of the Ministries do not indicate any reduction on expenditure because of the reduction of expenditure on fuel allocated to Ministers. So, how do we know? In any case, the Policy Statement does not seem to give us enough details to enable us make that kind of judgment. We need to take this very seriously. I urge the House that, as we adopt this Report, we actually make demands from the Ministry of Finance that they deal with the issues as required by this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is the Ministry for Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands. I looked at the allocation given to this Ministry and asked myself: Are we going to continue feeding this Ministry with Supplementary Budgets? The only reasons as to why some of us supported the Motion for the adoption of the Supplementary Budget yesterday was the allocations going to the Ministry for Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands. This Ministry has its own place, because it is a Ministry that has been created. We do not create Ministries to just appease people. We create Ministries, so that we can implement programmes and projects. It is quite regrettable that a whole Ministry that was brought in to resolve the issue of resource allocation was given nothing in the last financial year. In the current financial year, we do not see a major policy shift to give resources to this Ministry. We need to re-look at this issue. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of external funding was also very disturbing. There is a very disturbing approach that the Ministry of Finance uses. We find announcements in newspapers that there are tenders being given out because of projects that are being funded externally with the European Union (EU) projects being the majority. However, this House is never made aware of how that money comes in and how it is expended. Non-declaration of external funds is going to ruin our Budget. This morning, all of us in this House received documents from the civil society in our pigeon holes. One of the documents that we received was about the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAS), which the civil society are telling us not to accept. We have asked the Ministry of Finance to brief the Committees on the EPAs and the funding that comes with it, but we are not receiving anything. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with the civil society, because I sit in the African Caribbean Pacific-European Union (ACP-EU) group, where this funding is discussed. The civil societyâs outcry is basically that the EPAs are biased in such a manner that they will have a negative effect on the development of the countries receiving the funding, unless we modify the agreements. The Ministry is keeping information away from this Parliament, instead of allowing agreements to be ratified by Parliament. This has caused an outcry from the civil society. I think the Ministry should do proper declaration and this House ratifies any of these agreements, even before we accept the funding. We know that most parliaments in Africa that are involved in the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) have ratified or rejected it because of their parliamentary participation. But lack of participation of this Parliament in the EPAs has led to our inability to interrogate the agreement to the extent that the only interrogation we are getting is from the civil society. That is one area we want to be sorted by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance."
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