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    "id": 1443404,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seki",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Seki Kanar",
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    "content": "Budget. They gave a lot of input to that Committee before they approved the Finance Bill. They spoke their minds. They said what is right and through their platform, this is something we applaud and say that we have seen them making history in our country and to us all. As leaders, this is something that has come to our attention that going forward, we need to be listening to every other person in this Republic. It is good that it is being brought to us, as leaders of this generation, that everyone needs to be listened to. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in that case, I thank everyone, including those who demonstrated, spoke their minds and advised the National Assembly, the President and all us. We have learnt our lesson. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Finance Bill, 2024 has been a very motive issue. I applaud and thank the President for not assenting to this Bill. If it had been assented, I do not know where we could be as a country. That is the kind of leadership we want in this country. If it were not for his own solomonic decision, I do not know where we could be as a country. There are many things that we need to learn from this. We know very well that we have things that need to be taken care of, including the gaps in the Finance Bill. We know that there are expenditures that the country needs to move on and how we will continue to incur expenditure. These are issues that we need to see how we are going to approach them as leaders in the next financial year. I know the President has put a structure on how these issues need to be tackled. I know very well that the austerity measures on how to handle these issues is on the platform. We need to know how to handle the issues of the Senate or Parliament. We know very well that we have a lot that we do not need to have in our expenditure as a Government. At times, I look at the kind of international trips that we go as Government, the Senate and legislatures. I do not know the kind of outputs we get. What are the outputs that we get from these international trips? These are issues that we really need to think about. We have gone to a number of trips, but what is the impact of these international trips that we normally go? We go for benchmarking in Dubai and Australia, but what is the impact? We use a lot of money on this. These are the things that we need to sit down as leaders of this country and ask ourselves what the impact is. Do we bring the lessons we learnt to change our country? These are the things we need to look at in order to reduce expenditure in our Government. You can see the delegations that the Cabinet Secretaries or the President has when he travels to another country. They use a lot of Government money. The President needs to look at these things in the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. We need to reduce this kind of expenditure so that we are able to recover from the gaps are in the Finance Bill,2024. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, honestly, we have a number of things to look at in employment. The Government is employing all over. If you look at the website, all parastatals are looking for staff. Government institutions, the Public Service Commission (PSC) and counties are employing. However, we do not employ the people that we need. We employ just for purposes of employment. These are the things we need to sit down and see how to reduce expenditure. Let see how we can reduce the baggage we have as a Government. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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