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    "id": 1142441,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I do stand to support the Committee’s Report that we annul these Regulations in their entirety. It is not the hobby of Parliament to be annulling Regulations. This House does not enjoy taking work back to Committees, which then take them back to the relevant Ministries. However, these Regulations had been crafted in such a way that they have been faulted by the Committee on Delegated Legislation. The Report actually points to a danger in the Ministry that shows the level of laziness. From the Committee’s Report, these are actually careless mistakes that could have been picked up by any officer in the Ministry before these Regulations were forwarded to the Committee for approval. It is also regrettable that this is not the first time that we are taking back Regulations to the Ministry responsible for the National Treasury. The National Treasury is becoming a perennial offender. The devil is always in the detail. The National Treasury is failing on such small issues as preparing Regulations according to the law and the Constitution. It would just have required a person to read the letter of the law and understand the spirit of the law as they were coming up with these Guidelines. As I said, Treasury is proving to be a perennial offender. Today, it is these Guidelines. Yesterday, it was the matter of the NG-CDF. The other day, it was the matter of the Budget Policy Statement (BPS). Previously, it was the matter of public debt. There is a problem at the National Treasury. The problem is bigger than the eye can see. As Parliament commences the Budget-making process, we will have to do the heavy lifting and lift the veil on the ills at the National Treasury."
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