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    "id": 1216812,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1216812/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, for example they may not see the issues around Information Communications Technology (ICT) like in some of the programmes that we are undertaking such as the fibre optic across board. I want to volunteer information to Members that there is the Service Fund, through the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK), which has sufficient money available to be extended to the ICT solutions that we need to deliver to Kenyans. I want to thank the Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee as well as Members of all the departmental committees who took time to listen to their various MDAs. I also want to give comfort to all departmental committees that gave recommendations to the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the zero-sum issue. I want Members to listen to this very carefully because majority of us are also in departmental committees. The BAC accords a lot of respect to various departmental committees. You did re-alignments and gave us a zero- sum recommendation where up to 97 per cent to 100 per cent of those recommendations were adopted. We did not amend majority of it because we also relied on the wisdom of the various departmental committees and the decisions that they made. There was a slight challenge on the additional funding because we are dealing with a very compressed fiscal space. I am sure even as we consider public-private partnerships (PPPs) we will also consider all the other items that never got a chance due to the limited space we had. I also want to bring good news to the Members here that we have condensed our appetites through these Supplementary Estimates. Our fiscal deficit is 5.7 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product. This is much lower than what was there in the Printed Estimates because we have embarked on the journey of reducing our fiscal deficit so that we can live within our means. I thank you Hon. Speaker. I beg to move."
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