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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this and commend the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the whole Committee for a well-documented Report on the Supplementary Budget. This budget has addressed pertinent issues; the issues that affect the people. These issues affect the common person. On the issues at play, as the Chairperson of the Committee on Education has just said, and I want to pinpoint them, I will look at the whole spectrum of the Supplementary Budget I. This time, the Budget has not interfered a lot with the aspect of development especially in university education. The monies that were allocated in the main budget have almost remained the same. Hon. Temporary Speaker, on the issue of Junior Secondary School, the country knows that next year, we are going to have Grade 8. They have supplied Ksh5 billion for the construction of the JSS classrooms or for the capitation. On top of that, it was the wisdom of the Departmental Committee on Education that Ksh3.5 billion be taken to the NG-CDF so that Members of this Committee will give shilling for shilling, which will be around Ksh6.6 billion, towards the construction of 16,000 classrooms in this Republic. That is quite commendable and I want to say that the Budget and Appropriations Committee has done it quite well. On the issue of university funding, I want to alert the Member for Seme that the funding formula is for the downtrodden; the poor. In this particular case, I want to point to the House that last week, the Departmental Committee on Education directed the Higher Education Loans Board to give pocket money to the students first and, thereafter, disburse the loans and lastly disburse the scholarship funds. This one was very important and this one has been done. On the issue of the JSS teachers, I want to say that it is very important that the issues that were at play have been captured well. I also want to point out that we have the issue of the sugar reforms. I want to laud the Government that, first of all, in the main Budget, most of the loans were written off and the monies that were supplied this time have been captured well. Lastly on the issue of Budget, I want to say that this was good and I want to thank the Members for that. Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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