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    "id": 1081371,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kieni, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kanini Kega",
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        "legal_name": "James Mathenge Kanini Kega",
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    "content": "There is Kshs6.47 billion in the preventive, promotive and reproductive health on account of acquisition of COVID-19 vaccines. They have indicated that they will be able to procure 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine that should be here in the first quarter of the next financial year. There is also Kshs4.98 billion under the State Department for Devolution for the Kenya Devolution Support Programme which we had omitted in the division of revenue of the last financial year. So, it was just being regularised. There is Kshs4.09 billion to the Sports Programme under the State Department for Sports on account of improved collection in sports, arts and social services. This is very interesting because, whereas in other areas there was a reduction in A-in-A in matters of sports, arts and social development, there was an increase in A-in-A. Other development expenditure includes the Kshs3.05 billion for the Water and Sewerage Infrastructure Development Programme under the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation. There is Kshs3 billion for the Urban and Metropolitan Development Programme under the State Department for Housing and Urban Development for Kazi Mtaani . There was a huge pending bill. Those young men and women who were working for the Kazi Mtaani had gone without payment, and we are happy that, this time round, those issues have been settled. There is Kshs1.1 billion for accelerated Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALS) Development Programme under the State Department for ASALS for the Hunger Safety Net Programme. As I approach conclusion, the Committee further noted that there are many affected programmes under the Supplementary Budget that do not have an analysis of the fiscal impact of the proposed changes to the affected programmes. Indeed, there is no change in some targets and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) despite a significant budget adjustment. That is why, sometimes, you cannot tell what benefits or impact the Financial Year 2021/2022 Budget will have on the economy or if it is simply an accounting tool showing how public funds have been spent. On the consolidated funds services, the expenditure has declined by Kshs3.63 billion. This reduction is largely on account of suspension of foreign debt servicing by Kshs16.8 billion as a result of the debt servicing relief from Export-Import (Exim) Bank of China and the Commercial Debt creditors from the International Sovereign Board. Conversely, there is an increase in domestic debt service by Kshs13.16 billion due to interest rate from re-opening or possible tenure renegotiated bonds. We received submissions from the Departmental Committees. I am happy that we were able to put most of the reports from the Committees into consideration. On most of the issues that they raised, because we were very categorical owing to the very short period that we have between now and the end of the financial year, we always say that we will only be able to consider the issues where there were requests on pending bills. However, on matters on any new projects, we were very hesitant. I am happy to report to the House that we are considering what the Departmental Committees are doing. There are a few observations that my Committee made. It should be in the next three minutes. There is inadequate time to process the Second Supplementary Estimates. As I said earlier, it was tabled on 9th June 2021. That was the same time we were also processing the Financial Year 2021/2022 Budget. We also have the Finance Bill. There were too many things that we were processing at the same time. So, we did not have enough time for us to critically interrogate this document. The second thing is about pending bills. During the consideration of the Budget Estimates, the Committee observed that there were huge amounts of pending bills cutting across various The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}