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    "id": 1208186,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1208186/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support these Regulations. I just want to give a short process that many people have gone through in the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. I hope that even as we look at these Regulations, we try to look at what the Public Procurement Administrative Review Board (Board) has also been doing. You may find contractors that have won projects working very closely with the Board and a project they are working on might find itself in a lot of challenges because of the Board's interference. So, I am hoping as we do these Regulations, we also realign the powers so that when the Government awards a project the Board does not become an impediment. So, even as we look at the PFM Act, one of the things we must ask ourselves is whether the Regulations will assist the Government to complete a project within the time frame that has been given. One issue that this House must look at, and that is one of the challenges we have faced, is the many pending bills. Projects start at a particular time frame. If we want to see the Government achieve and our constituencies to be developed, we must ensure that the time frame of the cycle of that project from planning to implementation is taken into consideration even if the project will have challenges on the way. So, the Regulations must guide the Government and the different institutions that are part of a project. The other thing that we appreciate about having regulations is that they bring in transparency. They assist us to see what is happening and the Members of Parliament are able to go and look at data and ask why a project has not moved to the level specified. The Member of Parliament can then push Government to complete the project and avoid people suffering. In the morning, we spoke about Regulations on public investments and now we are talking about the PFM Act. These things go together. We are hoping our officers in Government will appreciate that we have regulations that guide us and ensure that when a project is awarded, money will be spent in a transparent, effective, and efficient way. Why NG- CDF has been one of those projects that move and you can see results is because of how strictly this House decided to put and itemize how the projects should move."
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