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"speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
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"content": "However, more importantly, one of the most important functions of Parliament is to authorise expenditure, particularly, when we are in the Committee of Supply. You will find the same provisions in Section 100(1) as you find in Section 101. Unfortunately, Mr. Imanyara, when reading that Section, as a good lawyer who is well paid, never reads the whole provisions. Good lawyers who are well paid never read the whole provisions. They read the part that supports their case and leave out the parts that do not support their case. So, I would urge you to read the entire provisions of Section 101 in relation to Section 100. It says as follows--- That reflects what the Minister for Finance has actually done; not from today but from yesterday. It reads as follows:- \"If the Appropriation Act of a Financial Year has not come into operation, or is not likely to come into operation, by the beginning of that Financial Year, the National Assembly may, by a Vote on Account, authorise the withdrawal from the Consolidated Fund of monies not exceeding, in total, one half of the sums included in the Estimates of Expenditure for that year that have been laid before the Assembly for the purpose of meeting expenditure necessary to carry on the services of the Government of Kenya during that year until such a time as the Appropriation Act comes into operation, but any monies to be withdrawn shall be included under separate Votes for the several services.\" Mr. Speaker, Sir, the most important part of this section is \"that they shall be included under separate Votes for the several services.\" It is important to note that each Vote has a head or a sub-vote, in respect of which monies are withdrawn in accordance with the Appropriation Act. The Motion that has been moved by the Minister for Finance has got a Schedule. Before he moved the Motion, he tabled this Schedule. Even before he laid the Schedule on the Table of the House, the Annual Estimates were laid on the Table of the House before the Budget. Accordingly, anything that we do during the Committee of Supply must be in accordance with the provisions that relate to June 25, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1419 the Committee of Supply, which are found in Part C of our Standing Orders, starting from page 52. Under Standing Order No.142(2), the procedure by which we vote in the Committee of Supply, says:- \"The Chairman shall put severally the Questions with respect to the Votes of the Annual Estimates, namely, that the several amounts of such Votes to be granted.\" So, each Vote is put into consideration. Therefore, it is my submission that Standing Order No.142(2) applies mutatis mutandis. If it did not apply, then the Minister for Finance would not have tabled this Schedule. In fact, the Schedule is known, technically, as \"Vote on Account Schedule (Recurrent) Financial Year 2008/2009\". This is to ensure that the officers who are empowered to withdraw money from the Consolidated Fund can go to this Schedule and actually check out how much money Parliament passed for purposes of particular services or Departments. It cannot be done in a wholesome or in global terms as contained in the Minister's Motion. That is why there is a Schedule. In the circumstances, as Mr. Imanyara amended the Motion, had to amend the Schedule---"
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