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    "id": 1077054,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1077054/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance to add my voice to the deliberations on this very important Motion which is the Budget 2021/2022. On behalf of my Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, we also extend our appreciation and thanks to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. The reason being we had very good negotiations together as a Committee and we agreed on most of the things. We join other colleagues and Members of this House who reiterated that this is the House of budget-making. We are not a conveyor belt. We scrutinise for the purposes and in relation to representing our people. Therefore, I agree with them. As the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, we were able to process a number of departments. We proposed to the Budget and Appropriations Committee to approve and agree with us on an allocation of Kshs193 billion to the Department of Infrastructure. Further, we also proposed to the Committee and this House to agree with us and approve Kshs10.7 billion to the Department of Transport. The Shipping Department will get Kshs2.7 billion, Housing, Kshs15.2 billion and Public Works Kshs4.23 billion. Finally, there are some departments which concern transport that were taken to the National Treasury but in accordance with Standing Order No. 216, they remain under the purview of my Committee in terms of day to day activities and particularly the budget."
}