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    "id": 1065715,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1065715/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 182,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, allow me to explain the delay of the submission of Budget Estimates which were ready. It was based on the court ruling which said that the Budget Estimates could not be introduced before the Division of Revenue Bill is passed. Hence, the National Treasury was waiting for its passage in this House to submit the Budget Estimates, so that it could not contravene that court ruling. That was the whole essence. We are still within the two months because we have the whole of May and June. The Senate made amendments which were not communicated in this House. Hence, it would have been done earlier, if it was not for that hitch. Luckily, we are still within time. When we process the Division of Revenue Bill faster next year, we will see who will be the delaying factor between the two Houses of Parliament and the National Treasury. That was the confusion or rationale for the delayed submission. It is not because Budget Estimates were not ready. They could not bring them until this House approved the Division of Revenue Bill."
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