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    "id": 1431473,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mary Emaase",
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    "content": "These are areas that did not have sufficient funding before. Therefore, this is very critical. There is a reduction in development funds, which is affecting donor partner funds. This is of concern because it may increase operational costs and has been attributed to shortfalls in revenue collection. By April 2024, we had collected Ksh21.79 billion against the projected Ksh24.21 billion. As a House, what does this mean going forward? This means that as we prepare to debate and engage in the budget estimates for the financial year 2024/2025, we need to focus more on revenue-raising measures and how to shrink our expenditure further. We need to look at areas of duplication and overlaps. This is especially true in the water, agriculture, and health sectors where there is a lot of overlap within the MDAs. This House needs to address this by further shrinking expenditures and, therefore, minimising deficits. I support the amounts allocated to the school feeding programme, fertiliser subsidies, and sugarcane farmers. I laud the Budget and Appropriations Committee for a good job. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support."
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