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    "id": 1098341,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to make a few remarks regarding this important matter. A budget, just like food; its importance and usefulness is only found in the disbursements. You only get to know whether food tests good when you eat it. The Senate has done its bit. We have pushed one another and we have equally pushed the National Government to give us additional funding. When those funds are not disbursed to counties, they remain beautiful in the books but they are surely not useful for the people that they were intended to provide services for. The Senate has never stopped and will never stop at just passing the budget but will provide a schedule that should be complied with by the National Treasury. Year in, year out, the National Treasury has failed to comply with that schedule and even the one that we are debating today, is unlikely to be complied with. That is why we should relook the Constitution and amend it to create a National Treasury for both levels of Government. The idea of having one National Treasury to serve both levels of"
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