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    "id": 1431422,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to first thank the Chairman and the Members of the Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations and all the chairpersons for the very good work they have done over the working recess. Some of us had time to retreat to our constituencies, but many of our departmental committee Members, their chairpersons, Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning have had a very busy working recess as they considered both the Supplementary Budget, the annual estimates and the ongoing Finance Bill engagements over the recess period. I take this opportunity to thank them for the great work that they have done. As I second, I re-emphasise the need for the National Treasury to ensure that this Supplementary Budget as we have emphasised before is passed. Hon. John Mbadi, who is a ranking Member of the Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations will tell you that over the years, this House has called on the National Treasury to limit the Supplementary Budgets to at least one, within a financial year. This is so that whatever you plan from your Budget Policy Statement (BPS) right to the annual estimates will only be revised once. Otherwise, the business of having to do budgetary revisions twice or thrice in a year is not a very good budgetary practice. It speaks volumes to the level of preparedness that we have when we are preparing our budgets. In a way, it creates uncertainty with the implementing agencies in Government as to whether you will have adequate resources to implement all the programmes 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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