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    "id": 122817,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "November 17, 2009 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3827 Mr. Bahari",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other issue is the one that was raised by hon. Ogindo, who spoke just before me. Countries now have moved in the direction of reading budgets three months before the end of the financial year, so that there is no money that is returned to the Treasury. What is going to get this country on the right course is how the Treasury is going to conduct its business. If it is going to conduct business as usual, then we will not get anywhere. They have to be innovative, including, perhaps, doing what other countries are doing; that is, reading the budget three months before the end of the financial year. By the time they come to the end of the financial year, they are already prepared and have put everything in place in terms of the implementation of the budget, so that no money goes back to the Treasury. This business of money going back to the Treasury – and we have decided that it is a normal thing – must stop. I want to urge the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to be the first one to change that trend of money going back to the Treasury. Why should it go back? We have the capacity. If the devolution process is on, we should be able to move in"
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