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    "id": 105459,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
        "slug": "ababu-namwamba"
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    "content": "For us to ensure that the Government pays regard to the Fiscal Management Act, this House must take this process seriously. Remember, as the Chairman of the Committee has indicated here, to bring into being this Act was a battle that the Government was absolutely opposed to. This is because the Government does not want Parliament to be part of this process. Indeed, the Ministry of Finance must be reprimanded for not being here while we are debating this matter. The Government side must be reprimanded for not being here when a matter of such serious national importance is being discussed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have noted the concern of the Committee that there is a serious disconnect between Budget proposals and planning. This Budget, at least, as exemplified in the Budget Policy Statement does not provide a clear link between fiscal and national priorities in terms of planning. It has been said that failing to plan is planning to fail. If, indeed, we are going to be debating budgetary proposals in a vacuum of planning, we are setting ourselves up to fail, just as has happened in the past where we have had public resources sunk in grandiose projects. These are projects that have not lived to see the light of day because of failure to plan. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, how can we have a Budget Policy Statement that is not linked clearly to certain concrete agenda that really should be brought to the Table by the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030? This is a matter that has to be corrected. Today we have priorities that we would have wanted to see in the Budget Policy Statement. We have the priority of bringing into being a new Constitution. It is shocking that the Budget Policy Statement was absolutely silent on the matter for financing the completion of the Constitutional review process and that this matter---"
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