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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the Communication which we have received very well, I will say one or two things. I do not know if there is any other Member who would like to say something. It is very discontenting on the timing of this BPS. I do not know how the National Treasury is operating under our good friend Cabinet Secretary (CS) Ukur Yatani who has been a governor. The BPS is such an important document that is being brought at the tail end of this session. Committees will have to sit and consider line items in their various Departmental Committees and then table a report yet we are going on recess tomorrow. That will necessitate a special sitting. Why is it that this BPS is brought out of time? It is not right for us, as a House, to accept that it is brought when the CS deems it fit and then we have to deal with it. We need to urge this CS to behave better. We want to give meaningful input to BPS as the Senate. Secondly, the way the trend has been is that the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, as you mentioned correctly, and the Constitution state that Parliament must report on the BPS. However, we usually send two different reports. There is a report by the Senate and another by the National Assembly. What the CS has been doing is disregarding the report by the Senate and considering the report by the National Assembly. Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, you will need to tell us, at a later date how we will deal with it differently this year. Do we have one report that moves from this House to the other House or do we get the report from the National Assembly? It is important that you resolve this matter between you and the Speaker of the National Assembly so that we do not do an exercise in futility. We have other things to do out there. For being an academic exercise while seating, the Chairperson of the Committee on Health is here, will sit with his committee for hours, go through the issues on health in this BPS, only for the CS to take into consideration what comes from the National Assembly. Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, kindly at the opportune time, give us guidance on how to deal with this once we have brought our committee reports. Am ready to look at labor issues, social welfare, women, children et cetera, whatever is under my mandate, but we do not want to do academic exercises in this House. We take a lot of time. I am sure Sen. Mogeni will call me to sit at the Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee (JLAC) and look at the provisions of the BPS for our committee, then all that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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