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    "id": 1067017,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "we did today, the approval of the Principal Secretary for the State Department for Implementation of Curriculum Reforms and I want to thank Members for that. Last week, we received the Printed Estimates from the National Treasury. We have also received the Finance Bill. This requires public participation in line with our Constitution. That public participation cannot take place because the Budget and Appropriations Committee will need to go out there and conduct public participation, the Finance Committee will need to be out there and all the chairs of committees will need to call for people to come and discuss things within the respective committees. Hence, it will become impossible to continue business in the House while Members are out there in committees. Since the Houses of Parliament are created for the vital job of the appropriation of money and determining the taxation of the people, it is an exercise that we need to do with concentration. We need those three weeks for that exercise, so that it can never be challenged that there was no adequate participation because we were in the House. That is the long and short of why we are reorganising the Calendar. This now means that instead of going home this week and we have just come back, we take the break on 14th May and run up to 8th June. Most importantly, we had already made a decision that in the first part of this Calendar, we will be having two sessions on Tuesday which is the afternoon and the evening session, and then on Thursday, we have three sessions, namely, one in the morning, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. So between this and next week, we will have ten sessions and we are maintaining that. When we come back, it will be a second part, we will bring in a Motion to decide how we go on to do business depending on the advice we get from the MOH and the business that will be in the House. I know we had also agreed that Thursday Morning sessions had been dedicated to Private Members Bills. We are, therefore, asking that for this Thursday and next Thursday, we do not carry out Private Members Bills or Motions, so that we can conclude debate on this constitutional matter. We can use the sittings to do some of the urgent business that we would want to complete by next week. When we come back, we will allocate more time for private Members as we process the financial Bills and all that. It is something that we considered extensively within the HBC. So it is for the convenience of the House that we do things this way and I hope the Members will take the opportunity to complete their engagement with the Treasury and ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) that they are oversighting by the time we come to complete the budget process, which hopefully, we would have finished in June, so that the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Treasury can come and give proposals for the year, by way of budget speech. We will then take our break again in July. We will communicate that later on."
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