{"id":133749,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/133749/?format=json","text_counter":228,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Kosgey","speaker_title":"The Minister for Industrialization","speaker":{"id":177,"legal_name":"Henry Kiprono Kosgey","slug":"henry-kosgey"},"content":" Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to second. First, I would like to commend the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, for a very wonderful job that he is doing at Treasury. We know that the amount of money available for various development programmes and Recurrent Expenditure is not a lot. We have a Budget of Kshs700 billion and the demand on that money is quite a lot. I think what they are doing in Treasury in trying to allocate money to various needs is quite a commendable job. The Ministry is requesting for slightly over Kshs43 billion for quite a number of projects for both Recurrent and Development Expenditure. I was just laughing as I was seated here. Compare that to what I was requesting the other day; about Kshs3 billion. I"}