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    "id": 1511792,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Thank you very much, Hon. Caroli Omondi, for raising this issue. You need to use your power, under Standing Order 1, to vet the Bills on whether some must go to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. There are certain Bills that we come up with, but they take time. It takes you six months before a Bill is tabled at the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), yet it does not have any implication on the budget, even at face value. We need to change that because the PBO delays. Three Bills lapsed because I had to queue as the PBO is busy, especially during the budgeting period when it cannot process Bills. You need to look at your office and the officers we have to determine whether some Bills must go to the PBO and whether they have any budgetary implications. This will help us to fast-track them. I have suffered. You have seen many of my communication Bills, but none have made it to the Floor of the House because the PBO has not sat as it is too busy. If you look at the queue, it stays with those Bills for three months, and then it gives you a report on an amendment of four or five lines. You can determine that without taking everything to the PBO."
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