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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to also join the Members of this House in supporting Supplementary Estimates II, in respect of which the Liaison Committee burnt the midnight oil to ensure that we have this Report ready. Consequently, we can approve the same to run the country for the next couple of months. Allow me to congratulate Hon. Atandi, the new Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I have worked with him in that Committee in several Sessions in the past, and I know he is very firm and meticulous. Therefore, this job is cut out for him. We will only ask him to be a little bit slow to allow us to do Committee work, and when we go there, let him not just tell us that we have to go by what we say. We will be there to plead for our agencies, and he has to listen to us and allocate the resources that those agencies will require to operate properly. Hon. Speaker, it goes without saying that the country continues to make strides in various sectors of the economy. This is a welcome development, especially after losing the Finance Bill 2024. Since then, the country has been operating on Supplementary Estimates. I have just seen a report to the effect that we have actually paid up the Eurobond loan through various economic transactions, some of which may not be known to me because I am a layman in economic matters, and that we have been able to procure more funding for the country. Therefore, our liquidity levels continue to improve. As we pass this Supplementary Budget, mine would be to ask the National Treasury and the Committee on Budget and Appropriations to consider the entire country for development, even if not equally but equitably. You know very well that we have had murmurs in the House in the last few days. Those murmurs came up when we were shown figures regarding how budgets were applied to various parts of the country. We cannot say by any iota 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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